#poetry

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. ↗

— James Martineau

#language #more #music #poetry #possible

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ↗

— Novalis

#heals #inflicted #reason #wounds

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. ↗

— George Eliot

#knowledge #poetry #art

To create art means to be crazy alone forever. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#bukowskisism #poetry #art

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#food #poetry

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. ↗

— Samuel Prout

#arrangement #combination #consist #does #fancy

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#form #habitually #here #poetry #should

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. ↗

— Erik Satie

#art #invented #modest #most #musician

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. ↗