Quotes About Poesie

#1. Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made his prophets poets; and the more
We feel of poesie do we become
Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

Philip James Bailey

#2. Wherever poesie can be felt, all poetic touches are superfluous.

Robert Walser

#3. Incineration does not equal human digestion; eating a fireplace log will not store the same number of calories as burning one will produce.

Timothy Ferriss

#4. George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team."
Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it.

J.K. Rowling

#5. Publish and be damned.

H.L. Mencken

#6. I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

Tina Turner

#7. If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.

Paul Valery

#8. People who newly taste freedom tend to act excessively.

Toba Beta

#9. In every part of your body there is poison. In every muscle of your body there is suppressed anger, suppressed sexuality, suppressed greed, jealousy, hatred. Everything is suppressed there. Your body is really diseased. Psychologists

Osho

#10. A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

Robert Southey

#11. Wise are you, indeed ... to know what is not possible ...

David Eddings

#12. You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.

Wallace Stevens

#13. Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

Henry Ford II