#poetry

Letting go I can have a firm foundation To honor you And hold you in my heart ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#indispensable #knew #only #poetry

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#children #cut #his #knot #life

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#always #liar #poet #speaks #truth

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#burning #evidence #just #life #well

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#poetry #the-continent-s-end #life

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#dreams #human-nature #inspirational-quotes #john-galsworthy #nobel-laureate

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

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life. ↗

— C.D. Wright

#life

Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads. ↗

— Ben Lerner

#dreams