#poetry

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not ↗

— John Keats

#beauty #poetry #art

this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#art

Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape? ↗

— Lucy Grealy

#poetry #art

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. ↗

— Macklemore

#challenging #front #more #people #piece

Poetry is a sort of homecoming. ↗

— Paul Celan

#poetry #sort

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#i #lot #narcissistic #poetry

Poetry lies its way to the truth. ↗

— John Ciardi

#poetry #truth #way

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#connection #didactic #even #exist #great

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#after #again #birch #exactly #frost

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

— Caroline Kennedy

#ideas #poetry #really #sharing #way