#poetry

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough. ↗

— Patricia MacLachlan

#poetry #words #love

you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better. ↗

— Daphne Gottlieb

#passion #poetry #relationships #sex #marriage

As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems anyway. Play the music in spite of that. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#art

If my like for you was a football crowd, you’d be deaf ’cause of the roar. And if my like for you was a boxer, there’d be a dead guy lying on the floor. And if my like for you was sugar, you’d lose your teeth before you were twenty. And if my like for you was money, let’s just say you’d be spending plenty. ↗

— Cath Crowley

#poetry #sweet-talk #love

There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either ↗

— Robert Graves

#poets #money

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#poetry #music

All music is what awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments, It is not the violins and the cornets....it is not the oboe nor the beating drums--nor the notes of the baritone singing his sweet romanza....nor those of the men's chorus, It is nearer and farther than they. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#music #poetry #men

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry. ↗

— Robert Bly

#sacred #nature

Woman is the light of God. ↗

— Rumi

#persian #persian-poetry #religion #rumi #rumi-poetry

Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#respect