Poetry Does Not Need Explanation Quotes

#1. Like a wildflower, poetry does not need explanation. It only needs to touch our emotions.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

Chad Smith

#3. Oh there is always sadness. Always grief. I have heard folks say this life could be all hardship and sorrow, if we let it be. If we let our hearts seal over.

Susan Fletcher

#4. I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

Karl Von Frisch

#5. Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence. The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness

Emmanuel Levinas

#6. You do not have to see the air to know you breathe it. You do not have to see the truth to believe it and you do not have to have witnessed love to feel it.

Kathryn Smith

#7. Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

Giovanni Giocondo

#8. Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world.
And maybe,
just maybe,
he'd come back one day,
and burn that
fucking
palace
to the ground

E. Lockhart