109 quotes found
“God respects me when I work but loves me when I sing.”
“We all have music inside us and can learn how to get it out one way or another.”
“Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe and restores to us forgotten parad...”
“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.”
“The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see - it is rather a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.”
“Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.”
“When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.”
“When you read and understand a poem comprehending its rich and formal meanings then you master chaos a little.”
“Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.”
