#poetry

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#artists #asking #emotional #got #hear

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#friends #go #i #others #people

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. ↗

— Edward Young

#admired #beyond #explained #logic #mystery

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#am #eliot #i #i am #influenced

Through the darkest hours of the night and through the dreamers realm I seek, Far beyond the starry sky and beyond galaxies I am free. Through the grimmest memories and past a seasons air I cannot breathe, Far beyond this mortal world in an afterlife we shall meet. ↗

— Lee Argus

#death-note #faith #friendship #love #poem

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#devotion #i #most #poetry #quite

Personality is everything in art and poetry. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#everything #personality #poetry

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#arose #change #friends #higher #higher level

Superstition is the poetry of life. ↗