Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The sky is love's muse.

I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.