Top 100 Poetry Philosophy 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. Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
Dejan Stojanovic
#4. There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you.
Debasish Mridha
#5. You're my story,
you're my poetry,
you're my flower
you're my deep driving desire.
Debasish Mridha
#6. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#7. There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.
Dejan Stojanovic
#8. 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
#10. I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.
Lara Pulver
#11. 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
#12. Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#13. We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
Dejan Stojanovic
#14. There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.
Salma Hayek
#15. 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
#16. 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
#18. There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.
Dejan Stojanovic
#19. Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.
So be passionate and write a great story.
Debasish Mridha
#20. The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
Jonathan Swift
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.
Dejan Stojanovic
#25. The words 'I Love You' kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
Aberjhani
#27. Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.
Dejan Stojanovic
#28. And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
Michel De Montaigne
#29. When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
Dejan Stojanovic
#31. Like a wildflower, poetry does not need explanation. It only needs to touch our emotions.
Debasish Mridha
#33. A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence.
Debasish Mridha
#34. Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view.
Debasish Mridha
#36. A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
Aberjhani
#37. If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.
Subhan Zein
#38. I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
Cheryl Mendelson
#39. 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
#40. Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.
Dejan Stojanovic
#41. Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
Dejan Stojanovic
#42. What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming?
Aberjhani
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.
Dejan Stojanovic
#46. 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
#47. SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE. GET USED TO IT. QUESTION MARK.
Amy King
#48. 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
#49. Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again.
Duncan McNaughton
#53. Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
Dejan Stojanovic
#54. Dreams are the poetry of life to be written with love and actions.
Debasish Mridha
#55. And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
from The Light, That Never Dies
Aberjhani
#57. Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.
Dejan Stojanovic
#58. IT'S NOT THE HONEY WHISKEY IN A FRIDAY NIGHT - IT'S THE MANIC SHOW OF POETRY TWEETS THAT TURNS ME ON.
Amy King
#59. 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
#60. A poem begins as an inner tune in the heart that beats with emotions and words waiting to be played with love.
Debasish Mridha
#61. A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
Dejan Stojanovic
#64. 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
#65. A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
Dejan Stojanovic
#66. Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.
Jennifer Grotz
#69. 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
#71. 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
#72. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.
F.K. Preston
#73. 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
#74. If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.
Dejan Stojanovic
#76. 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
#77. 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
#79. We're all just wandering souls searching for a heart to call home...
I. Wimana C.
#83. 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
#84. I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don't separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?
Etel Adnan
#85. But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
Alfred De Vigny
#86. Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
Dejan Stojanovic
#88. 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
#90. I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#92. Whoever challenges freaks should notice
that in the method he does not mature into a beast.
Santosh Kalwar
#93. This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.
Dejan Stojanovic
#94. DESPITE THE INVENTION OF TIME MACHINES, WE KEEP BEING LINEAR.
Amy King
#95. Material creation begins in a tiny corner of a large island called imagination.
Stella Mowen
#96. My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.
F.K. Preston
#97. It's exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy - about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.
Daniel Keyes
#98. 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
#99. Poetry of the universe is written with flowers and the lights of love on a canvas we call earth.
Debasish Mridha
#100. True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer.
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
