#poetry

Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun. ↗

— Andrea Gibson

#guns

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #nature

اسرع الي خلع خفيها عن قدميها الرقيقتين ان كانت لابستهما أو البسهما قدميها ان كانتا مجردتين منهما, و ان شكت برداً فدفئ كفيها في صدرك, و لو ارتجفت برداً. ولا تحسبها ذلة ان تمسك مرآتها بيدك, يا من ولدت حراً لا قناً(هي ذلة حقاً لكن ما اسرع ان تستعذبها) ↗

— Ovid

#art

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#words #hell

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#poetry #unexpected

Springwater grow so thick it gonna clot and the pleasing ladies cease. I figure, yup, you is bad powers. ↗

— John Berryman

#the-dream-songs #dreams

Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life’s journey and with Elemental’s Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before. ↗

— Luther E. Vann

#art #creativity #gift-books #jepson-center-for-the-arts #national-poetry-month

Science is the poetry of reality. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #science

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#poetry #science #science

I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song. ↗

— David Byrne

#poetry #song #design