Beautiful Poetry Quotes:

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

- Rumi

topic: Beautiful, Giving, Poetry, Beautiful Poetry

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

topic: Beautiful, Inspiration, Ideas, Profound Thoughts, Beautiful Poetry

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Art, Music And Life, Beauty Of Life

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....

- Robert Frost

topic: Dark, Promise, Lovely, Marathon Running, Good Poetry

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

- Robert Frost

source: "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Sleep, Marathon Running, Broken Promises

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

- Emily Dickinson

source: " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Soul, Hope And Faith, Extremity

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

topic: Love, Men, Two, Marriage Love, Loving Husband

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

- William Wordsworth

source: "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" l. 1 (1815 ed.) See DorothyWordsworth 1

topic: Lonely, Nature, Spring, March Poems, Pensive

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Love, Death, Song, Death Poems, Comfort The Grieving

Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

topic: Strong, Taken, Heart, Ulysses, Strong Bond

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening grain. I am in the morning hush, I am in the graceful rush Of beautiful birds in circling flight, I am the star shine of the night. I am in the flowers that bloom, I am in a quiet room. I am in the birds that sing, I am in each lovely thing. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there. I do not die.

- Mary Elizabeth Frye

source: "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Morning, Ripening, Inspirational Bereavement

A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.33

topic: Beautiful, Mirrors, Poetry, Beautiful Poetry

God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human experience. And, yes, it does give us clear boundaries of what we should and shouldn't do so we can live our best lives.

- Jennifer Rothschild

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Beautiful, Life Lesson, Voice, Beautiful Poetry

There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are brought forward. That appears to be easy. You can say, "Oh, well. I don't have to bother about not eating pork, and not drinking wine, and all you have to do is read the beautiful poetry of Rumi and talk about wine, women and song. Or something like that." This kind of attitude. This is the antipode of the other attitude which says Islam is nothing but throwing bombs, it has nothing to do with internal or inward purification.

- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Beautiful, Spiritual, Song, Spiritual Teaching, Beautiful Poetry

One of the best records I’ve ever heard. Seriously, maybe top 20 all-time… I think if Rich Mullins had been given more time here, and if God had blessed his life with love and a wife, if he had the chance to see as much of the relational beauty as he saw of the natural beauty, I think he might have written some songs like the ones we find on BiRDS OF RELOCATiON. And you know that’s about the highest praise I can give someone. You will not find a combination of more beautiful poetry, raw honesty, and gorgeous melodies for a long time.

- Todd Agnew

topic: Beautiful, Song, Honesty, Beautiful Poetry

As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.

- Brian Molko

topic: Beautiful, Morning, Party, Groupie, Exotic Animals

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

- Matt Groening

source: "The Simpsons: The Secret War of Lisa Simpson". m.imdb.com. 18 May 1997.

topic: Beautiful, Hurt, Crazy, Beautiful Poetry

Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry.

- Patti Smith

source: Source: thefilmexperience.net

topic: Beautiful, Book, Mean, Beautiful Poetry, Holy Books

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

- Naguib Mahfouz

topic: Beautiful, Love Yourself, Relax, Enjoy Yourself, Beautiful Poetry

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Beautiful, Passion, Heart, Yeats, Irishmen