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“for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.”

Reason Light Able Poetry Poet Holy Inspired

Book:Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws

Source: Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws

“These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink”

Light Together Poetry Paper Shade Passages Ink Minerals

Book:Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems

Source: Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems

“ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light”

Light Poetry Beats Rays Noon Anvils Rays Of Light Zenith

Author:Sonia Delaunay

“The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.”

Soul Light Poetry White Poet Transparent White Light Irises

Book:Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

“And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.”

Inspirational Light Poetry Painting Letters Welcome Addresses Forgiven New Orleans Hurricanes Spray Porch

Author:Andrea Gibson

“Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.”

Helping Use Shows Light Poetry Situation Cutting Easier Prose Poetry Is Lasers

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.”

Kind Facts Light Poetry Emotion Objects Particular Color Poet Landscape Sensations

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.”

Men Inspirational Long Reason Light Running Able Poetry Poet Holy Garden Madness Inspired Possession Flying Melody Honey Bees Muse Prophecy

Book:The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters

Source: The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters

“We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence.”

Light Poetry Taken Poet Pockets Obscure

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni Mitchell] will write exactly what she lives. If she puts some money in the soda machine, she'll write about putting money in the soda machine. "Dry Cleaner from Des Moines," on the Shadows & Light album, was about sitting next to a dry cleaner from Des Moines, playing a slot machine.”

Ifs Writing Light Poetry Next Stuff Talking Poet Sitting Shadow Machines Albums Dry Songwriters Cleaners Soda Slot Machines Lyricists Des Moines Dry Cleaners

Author:Don Alias

“They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.”

Hands Light Poetry Food Moon Dance Edges Sand Hand In Hand Spoons Just Dance Lear Quince Forks And Spoons

Author:Edward Lear

“Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”

World Mind Stories Light Poetry Rational Cracks Cocaine Straightforward Bypass Rational Thought

Author:Jasper Fforde

“Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.”

Light Poetry Roles Records Lays Senses Shakes Surround Surprising Strict Surprising Things

Author:Jean Cocteau

“The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.”

Men Writing May Littles Ends Light Poetry Capacity Myth Meaningful Meaning Of Life Poetry Is Meaningful Life Life Means Great Poetry What Is Poetry

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.”

Ifs Facts Light Poetry Stars Common Magic Sky Keys Highest Common Sense Poetry Is Spells Rubbish Sideways Ineffable Windy

Book:Eight Lectures on Yoga

Source: Eight Lectures on Yoga

“A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.”

Light Might Poetry Half Arms Supreme Showers

Book:Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

Source: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

“Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.”

Thinking Ideas Light Poetry President Poet Carrie Johnson Frost Bulbs Light Bulb Eliot Valentino President Johnson

Author:Bob Dylan

“Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.”

Ends Light Poetry Poetry Is Tunnels Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel

Author:J. Patrick Lewis

“Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.”

“Whatever is not stone is light”

Light Poetry Stones Shining Mexican

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.”

May Light Poetry Myth Poetry Is Great Poetry

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.”

Knows Light Poetry Easy Easier What Is Poetry

Author:Samuel Johnson

“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

“You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.”

Bigs Light Poetry Left Streets Green Welcome Green Lights

Author:R. Kelly

“Love, they said, burns you and builds you. But with you, there’s no ash. Just light.”

“Like a pair of old slippers, I feel comfort and warmth as I slip into you. No, that is too crude. Like the match to the wick, I ignite when we touch. My counterpart and life's purpose. Yes, as though I've known you my whole life. Every scar, every failure has become an affirmation of what should be: You. Yes, as though I've loved you my whole life.”

“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.”

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“In the Light of your Wisdom, You Shine. In the Midst of your Truth, Your Faith is Evident. From inside your Spirit, You are Love.”

Source: Release The Ink

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