#poetry

Don't Worry Be Happy ↗

— Meher Baba

#life #nonmind-yoga #perfect-masters #poetry #sufi

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. ↗

— James Joyce

#against #always #apparently #artifice #even

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. ↗

— Toi Derricotte

#asks #being #besides #care #experience

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#beauty #blow #easy #handshake #hear

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#album cover #also #artwork #basis #blake

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#book #cold #ever #fire #i

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #dulling #excellence #goodbye #human

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. ↗

— William Blake

#fettered #fetters #flourish #human #human race

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#ever #everyone #exact #exact opposite #knew

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#cynicism #depict #experiment #hazardous #humour