#poetry

Hay una estrella mas abierta que la palabra 'amapola'? Is there a star more wide open than the word 'poppy"? ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#nature #poetry #stars #words #nature

The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets. ↗

— Qurratulain Hyder

#nature #poetry #nature

...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky... ↗

— John Geddes

#intimacy #night-sky #poetry #religion #religion

(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#poetry #religion #wallace-stevens #weather #religion

Scientist alone is true poet. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#poetry #science #science

The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly. ↗

— Paramhansa Yogananda

#science #spiritual #science

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. ↗

— John Keats

#poetry #death

The poet will only be recited until the death of his language. The violinist will only give recitals until the bowing of nose hairs. ↗

— Bauvard

#greatness #humor #music #noses #poetry

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#any #but not without #days #food #go

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#another #give #hate #hatred #instinctive