Rollo May Quotes

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

The sky is love's muse.

'Flower' is about the sublime.

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

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever capable of adding to the sum of the world's grave beauty.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

All men are poets at heart.

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

When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

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

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.