“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” ― Cassandra Clare
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” ― Plato
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” ― Robert Frost
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” ― Kahlil Gibran
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” ― Charles Darwin
“If you have the words, there’s always a chance that you’ll find the way.” ― Seamus Heaney
“Always be a poet, even in prose.” ― Charles Baudelaire
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” ― Robert Frost
“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.” ― Charles Bukowski
“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” ― Charles Baudelaire
“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.” ― Rick Riordan
“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it” ― Gustave Flaubert
“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.” ― W.H. Auden
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