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5714 Poet Quotes

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

Live Life People Read
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Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

Admitting Failure Pleasurable
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..the heart is an organ of fire.

Heart Organ Fire
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Death means you are in the third person.

Death Means Third person
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Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

Love Small Eye Needle
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Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.

Sleep Prison Boy Friends
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if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you

You Plunder Past Abscence
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We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Knot Heart Wish Untie
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From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

Point Find Lose Souls
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A novel is a mirror walking down a road

Novel Mirror Road
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We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

Expanded Tears Reduced
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She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

Words Loved Clarity Reason
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Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

Events Lifetime Damage Influence
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There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

Danger Violence
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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Sentence Novel Trust Human
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Love is the use one makes of another.

Love Use Another
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...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Art Hide Save Protect
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It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

Perception Write View Someone
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Sadness is very close to hate.

Sadness Close Hate
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Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

Time World Truth Opinion
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Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

Perfection Small thing Made
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Work Art Shadow Divine perfection
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Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

God Creates Copy
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No great work of art is ever finished.

Work Art Finished
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Man Paints Brains Hands
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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Beauty Purgation Superfluities
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

Art Constraint Dies Freedom
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The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

Idea Remove Excess
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Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

Art Jealous Whole Man
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Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.

Gazing Beautiful Acts Soul
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Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Greatness Measured Horizons
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I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.

Criticise Creation Finding fault
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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Soul Heaven Earth's Loveliness
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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Death Love Good man Heaven
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Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Faith Oneself Best Safest course
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I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

Serve Love God Hope
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True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

True art Noble Religious Mind
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The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

Tragedy Life Achieve Goals
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I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Live Love God's Light
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Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

Gifts Values Passions Life
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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

Fret God Create Abandon
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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Stone Statue Sculptor Discover
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Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

Lord Free Myself Please
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An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

Artist Work Think Create
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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Beauty Perception Source
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Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

Love Heart Friend Virtue
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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

Art Gift God Glory
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Pleased Life Death Master
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

Sculpture Painting Adding
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I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

Wife Art Works Children
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