#poetry

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#exaltation #into #less #none #nothing

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#before #blaze #crest #every #flowers

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#around #combination #find #hard #head

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#alone #galileo #had #him #inquisition

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. ↗

— Keith Haring

#enlightened #fallen #i #into #me

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed. ↗

— Brian Harris

#born #indeed #mouth #music #poetry

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#art form #concern #essential #form #language

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#life #remembering #worth

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#always #artist #create #desire #even

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. ↗

— Robert Hass

#going #i #i think #idea #job