Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

Wine is incredibly sexy.

Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating. It's the greatest subject to study. No matter how much you learn, every vintage is going to come at you with different factors that make you have to think again.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Money is a kind of poetry.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.

It's what makes me the happiest - to make beautiful things for the people I love, and to fill my home with love and laughter and music and food and people.

I have been brought up around art. Even now, when I travel, I love going to museums and spend hours in front of paintings. Art is like oxygen for me. That's what I miss in Bombay.

Italian wines are my favorites. I like a big, booming red wine that blows your taste buds away.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Let there be songs to fill the air.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

So, I simply switched over to wine because it was not carbonated.

Dance is so joyous.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.