Poetry quotations ~ good company for the poetic journey
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"Let the beauty we love be what we do." ~Rumi
"A good poem is like finding a hole in the palace wall - you never know what you might see." ~Tukaram
Poetry is the larger sense of the word ~ poems, stories, myths, paintings, dances, dreams ~ it is the most exhilarating and transporting vehicle for travel there is. ~Thomas Moore, Original Self
Poets are the antennae of the race. ~Ezra Pound
Poetry can be a stone, a prayer, a kiss or a gun. Poets write to create beauty, tell the truth, speak for those without voices, comfort the sorrowful, encourage the hopeless, call attention to that which is fragile, and encourage us to be mindful. ~Mary Pipher, Writing to change the World
Ultimately, a poem has an electrical force field which is love. ~ Joy Harjo
A good poem can set a listener adrift on a small raft under a vast night sky of stars. ~Jane Hirshfield
Just become quiet, still, and solitary,
and the world will offer itself to you
to be unmasked; it has no choice.
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
~Franz Kafka