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 par...”
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.”
“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.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.”
“The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.”
“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.”
“There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
“The echo of a platitude.”
“Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.”
“About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.”
“When someone does something well applaud I You will make two people happy.”
“Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved most people expand under it into richer and better selves.”
“Down deep we really know our worth but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.”
“Every day tell at least one person something you like admire or appreciate about them.”
“Art is much less important than life but what a poor life without it.”
“Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
