#poetry

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows... ↗

— W.H. Davies

#poetry #time #w-h-davies #life

I love being able to see an un-written future. ↗

— Michael Jones

#michael-jones #poems #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes... ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#beauty #poetry #beauty

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#awhile #humming #keats #only #other

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#everything #geometry #invents #may #perfectly

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight. ↗

— Shane Koyczan

#poetry #stop-signs #beauty

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#character #comedy #diversified #even #great

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ↗

— Patrick White

#age #asthma #chiefly #early #efforts

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#artists #asking #emotional #got #hear

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#friends #go #i #others #people