Poetry Quotes - Page 19

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.
What are brief? today and tomorrow.
What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.
What are deep? the ocean and truth.

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

May be its mine bad-luck
Or yours not to get me
But I still have hope
Of being yours

truth is a friend
that asks for loyalty
and acceptance
then it enters our hearts
dissolving the boundaries
freeing us from lonliness

O how we call each other names
You call me schizophrenic
I call you God
But we do agree on one
Deluded are we both.

the gods play no
favorites.

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,
But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

What seems real one moment is fiction the next
and gone out of existence the moment after that.
Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,
and change our only constancy.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

A charm invests a face
Imperfectly beheld, -
The lady dare not lift her veil
For fear it be dispelled.

But peers beyond her mesh,
And wishes, and denies, -
Lest interview annul a want
That image satisfies.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

LIBERTY!
FREEDOM!
DEMOCRACY!
True anyhow no matter how many
Liars use those words.

the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Poetry is Life. We experience poetry from the time we awake each morning and inhale that fresh breath of air. You are living poetry. Poetry is not defined by the laws of man. Inspiration is the key.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.