#poetry

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. ↗

— Robert Graves

#neither #poetry

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

#does #each #experience #innocent #learn

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite. ↗

— John Keats

#art

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#art #creating #gardens #imaginary #real

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#poetry #simply #touch

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. ↗

— William Shenstone

#diseases #flattering #most #poetry

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. ↗

— George Murray

#been #considered #doing #entertained #even

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#giving #like #looking #need #often

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#ideas #poetry #really #sharing #way

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ↗

— Novalis

#heals #inflicted #reason #wounds