Top 100 Philosophy Of Poetry Quotes
#1. There are two kinds of love. One kind you live with, the other you write poetry about.
Debasish Mridha
#2. I have a sickness doctors can't cure,
Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,
Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,
Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,
Shameless were those my nights,
Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion.
Ibn Hazm
#3. There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.
Dejan Stojanovic
#4. She captured the spot of my world's centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.
Richard Ronald Allan
#5. No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?
Henry David Thoreau
#6. Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#7. Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#8. I think ... that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals ...
Corliss Lamont
#10. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?
Henry David Thoreau
#11. A poem often begins in the midst of wonderful wandering thoughts that are eager to open wings to fly in the beautiful blue sky of imagination.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.
Dejan Stojanovic
#13. Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.
Dejan Stojanovic
#14. If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.
Subhan Zein
#15. I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.
Mos Def
#16. Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.
Dejan Stojanovic
#17. What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming?
Aberjhani
#18. Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Thomas Aquinas
#19. Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity.
Steven Storm
#20. Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
Matthew Arnold
#21. An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age.
William C. Brown
#23. Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
Dejan Stojanovic
#24. Dreams are the poetry of life to be written with love and actions.
Debasish Mridha
#25. And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
from The Light, That Never Dies
Aberjhani
#26. IT'S NOT THE HONEY WHISKEY IN A FRIDAY NIGHT - IT'S THE MANIC SHOW OF POETRY TWEETS THAT TURNS ME ON.
Amy King
#27. Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer.
Debasish Mridha
#28. First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.
Paul Klee
#29. A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
Dejan Stojanovic
#30. A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.
F.K. Preston
#34. Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#36. The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It's the tender understanding that we're living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there's quite a bit of wonder in that.
F.K. Preston
#37. You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're
supposed to be civilized and cultured - to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?
George Bernard Shaw
#38. Oh the beauty of nature!
Oh the magical heart touching flower.
My heart wants to bloom like you
with love, joy, and laughter.
Debasish Mridha
#39. But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
Alfred De Vigny
#40. The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#42. DESPITE THE INVENTION OF TIME MACHINES, WE KEEP BEING LINEAR.
Amy King
#43. Material creation begins in a tiny corner of a large island called imagination.
Stella Mowen
#44. The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves ... The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.
Harold Bloom
#45. Poetry of the universe is written with flowers and the lights of love on a canvas we call earth.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Poetry is the imitation of the most important aspect of human existence life and that's what make's it so beautiful and necessary.
Nicolas Saperstein
#47. Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions.
Debasish Mridha
#48. That's the thing about love
It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you
And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person
Kehinde Sonola
#49. A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#50. He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at a time, because when a poem "spoke to him" it was as if a brilliant, agonizing light had been turned upon some tiny, private cell of his soul.
Claire Messud
#51. Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
Maurice Druon
#53. Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing:
Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. (pg. 16)
Kabir
#54. Now you may hear songs of kindness
From every singing bird
And from every dancing heart
Let kindness be the part of your being
Debasish Mridha
#55. Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.
Dejan Stojanovic
#56. I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never translate poetry - it's too hard, there are too many levels. Not that prose doesn't have many levels, but it's more grounded.
Ann Goldstein
#57. You have to choose what you want to be.
You have to choose your own path in life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#58. Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.
Aberjhani
#59. One does not become a poet by uttering beautiful words. One becomes a poet by pouring their soul as wine into the Cup of Love.
Subhan Zein
#61. Friendship is a poetry of life that is written in two hearts.
Debasish Mridha
#62. I'm Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..
Adel Abouhana
#63. I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.
Jose Saramago
#64. Oracle of Delphi:
In my deep mystery I breathe
your fragrance swirling in
your odourless soul
I return your mystery
revealing your destiny deep in
the seed of your God Self
Ramon Ravenswood
#65. Once we merge with the Core
Trusting the efficiency
Of our Soul's intent
The Flow becomes
The only possible direction
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#67. When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#68. Flowers are the poetry of the earth we are supposed to love and understand.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#70. The responsibility of any science, any pure pursuit, is ultimately to itself, and on this point physics, philosophy, and poetry unite with Satan in their determination not to serve. Any end is higher than utility, when ends are up.
William H Gass
#71. THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM
[all snap flags]
Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
Anne Carson
#73. Auguries of innocence
The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
William Blake
#74. We are merely ghost flowers under the shade of the moon
Many shades of secret sorrows blanket our eyes
We spend our lives and our souls
Searching-
Longing-
Waiting-
For a little light to shine and heal our broken halo's
Steven A. Williams
#75. The statement 'There is nothing more American than an Indian' happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.
Charles Slagle
#76. The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.
Henry David Thoreau
#77. There can be no law of nature, no science,
No aberrant infliction of human will
That unchained the soul cannot conquer,
Simply sweep away, should it chose to.
Scott Hastie
#78. The fakirs always throng the sea-shore
To find meaning in the chaos
And then they too become melancholy
Feeling nothing but their naked toes.
Avijeet Das
#79. We cannot see the best things in life, we can only feel them. A poet tries to describe those indescribable feelings in a language of emotions and inner perceptions.
Debasish Mridha
#80. I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.
Shahin Najafi
#81. Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.
Dejan Stojanovic
#83. Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?
Aristotle.
#84. Poetry is the flower of life. It blooms to fill life with her fragrance of inner beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#86. The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from time to time we hear the opposite, then those are just trivial religious and poetical exaggerations and ridiculous rumors, which have nothing to do with the real circumstances of the simple dead.
Hassan Blasim
#87. Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.
Theodore T. Munger
#88. It is thus the adventure of poetry, not the closure of philosophy, that most truly reflects the human condition.
Terry Eagleton
#89. I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
Czeslaw Milosz
#90. This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
Aberjhani
#91. A poet is an unpaid laborer of a mine where he digs into the mountain to find rough diamonds. He then polishes them with his imagination and emotion to share with everyone.
Debasish Mridha
#92. Chivalry is itself the poetry of life. - SCHLEGEL, Philosophy of History.
Inazo Nitobe
#93. Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
Dejan Stojanovic
#94. Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can give you strength no one can defeat
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#95. Today and every day:
I offer the universe my love
I offer the universe my peace
I offer the universe my beauty of hope
I offer the universe my deepest gratitude
for her hospitality and generosity
Debasish Mridha
#96. In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.
Henry David Thoreau
#97. Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?
F.K. Preston
#98. A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
- "Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
#100. The poet ... is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs ... the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.
Jacques Derrida
