#poetry

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#get #martyred #poetry #slaves #stopping

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

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied. ↗

— Robert Wells

#disgust #envy #life #pillar #poem

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#community #different #group #high #monica

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. ↗

— James Buchan

#contain #does #importance #information #like

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#existence #lending #nothing #poetry #shadows

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#poetry #life

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#appeals #enormously #even #go #heroism

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#eternity #go #into #life #only