Best poetry & eye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.”

Way Soul Eye Earth Joy Poetry Tears Evidence Witness Paradise Melancholy Nerves Excess Imperfect Disposition Delay Glimpse Exquisite Tombs Splendor Imperfect Things

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes.”

World Writing Kind Made Different Eye Poetry Space Decision Focus Identity Poet Conscious Areas Tools Poetic Different Kinds Different Place Interacting Clearing Single Word

Author:Tracy K. Smith

“O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.”

Dream Eye Poetry Women Perfect Beauty Poet Clouds Poetry Is Pale Rhyme Eyelids Perfect Beauty

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”

May Two Eye Poetry Imagination Common Numbers Creativity Creation Poet Birth Exercise Aspect Ideals Function Add All Time Motive Poetic Imaginative Uncommon

Author:Walter Pater

“But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot”

Writing Art Sometimes Seems Eye Poetry Poet Snapshots

Book:Robert Lowell: a tribute

Source: Robert Lowell: a tribute

“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.”

Eye Poetry Ears Reading Books Hearing Loss

Book:Alternating Current

Source: Alternating Current

“She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.”

“..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.”

“Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.”

Eye Poetry Nature Ears Awake

Author:e. e. cummings

“For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.”

World Humans Would Be Eye Science Poetry Space Wonder Vision History Saws Future Graduation My Future Grappling Human Eyes Visions Of The Future Seesaw Future Science

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land.”

Knows Looks Soul Eye Poetry Night Song Darkness Tree Land Color Summer Shadow Blue Paint Winter My Soul Hills Gray Breeze Chill Popular Song Palette Snowy Daffodil Linen Starry Night

Author:Don McLean

“Girl with the burning golden eyes, And red-bird song, and snowy throat: I bring you gold and silver moons, And diamond stars, and mists that float. I bring you moons and snowy clouds, I bring you prarie skies to-night To feebly praise your golden eyes And red-bird song, and throat so white. ~Vachel Lindsay "To Gloriana" God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see.”

“Her eyes the glowworm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.”

Littles Eye Poetry Stars Fire Thee Shooting Sparks Her Eyes Shooting Star

Author:Robert Herrick

“Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.”

Made Eye Poetry Gold Mates Steel Great Art Blades Vivid Dew

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.”

Ifs Trying Facts Eye Poetry Existence Cases Darkness Five Heard Perception Senses Naked Unseen Bananas Five Senses Naked Eyes

Book:The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

Source: The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

“For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.”

Stills Seems Eye Poetry Turns Fields Scene Gay Shining Classic Poetic Prospects Gilded

Author:Joseph Addison

“Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes.”

Heart Light Eye Poetry Empty Statues Phantoms

Author:Dan Fogelberg

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