#poetry

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. ↗

— Walter Scott

#grace #hereditary #heroic #lends #makes

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. ↗

— Richard Serra

#cape #core #go #hand #i

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#happiest #minds #moments #poetry #record

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#beautiful #distorted #makes #mirror #which

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#contain #ever #lightning #poetry #sword

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#familiar #hidden #lifts #makes #objects

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. ↗

— William Shenstone

#felt #frequently #lines #most #musical

Poetry is the deification of reality. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#reality

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#i #kids #poetry #quiet #those

maybe silent hurting is the new Mid-Western love ↗

— Daniel Bailey

#love