#poetry

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#existence #lending #nothing #poetry #shadows

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! ↗

— Lord Byron

#poetry #stars #which

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#beauty #dejan-stojanovic #express #expression #feel

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#poetry #life

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#eternity #go #into #life #only

Look upward to him Look to him for everything Look to him for help Look to him for comfort ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

Look upward to him Look to him for everything Look to him for answers Look to him for a listening ear ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

I can look beyond the clouds to feel your love the sun will rise again to end the darkness ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#breezes #child #dreaming #poetry #sunsets

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #bible #culture #emphatically #fiction