Best poet & universe Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.”

Ifs Knows Writing Looks Said Enough Whole Universe Poet Understood Wine Glasses Wine Glass

Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

“You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.”

Universe Sides Poet Ego Models Get Away Where You Are Equations Victorian

Author:Peter Wolf

“We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.”

Thinking Humans Artist Universe Consciousness Poet Creating Rewriting Human Thought

Author:Steve Jobs

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.”

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.”

Science Universe Poet Scientist Unison

Author:Anais Nin

“Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!”

Earth Joy Song Universe Heaven Voice Cry Poet Sorrow Lows Glory Singers Inward Woe Amen

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.”

Men World Mean Light Joy Spirit Universe Virtue Grace Poet Aim Delight Lovely Obligation Traits Shed Royal Cheerfulness Sparkle Hilarity

Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures

“It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.”

Seems Universe Poet Structure Philosopher Gaps Comment Dressings Patches Gowns Unjustified Nightcap

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.”

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Author:Richard Howard

“We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry.poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.”

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Author:Rita Dove

“The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.”

Universe Stars Poet Add Atoms Astronomers Catalogues

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.”

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Book:The Occult: A History

Source: The Occult: A History

“The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.”

Men Made Soul Whole Universe He Man Poet Activity Solve Riddle

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.”

Writing Reason Moments Universe Poet Lovers Fame Essentials Communion After Death Fusion

Author:Anais Nin

“I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels - children and poets both tend to feel.”

Feels Kind Children Universe Parent Born Poet Late Only Child Center Of The Universe

Author:Billy Collins

“I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times when you were making false models of the universe. Everything is kind of irrational and poetic then.”

Thinking Kind Long Remember Universe Childhood Poet Poetic Irrational

Author:Guy Maddin

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