poetic soul Quotes

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind. And it showed up in his songs - I mean, almost every song he wrote had something to do with dying. He was an American treasure that went way too soon.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.

[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

All men are poets at heart.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.