Emma Lazarus Quotes

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Poetry is an act of peace.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Music is the perfect type of art.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

Poetry is fired by love.