Celestial song
In dawn colours
Bathing in the spring waters
Of morning
Siesta balm
In afternoon seas
Dreaming in the marmalade
Of middays
Lonely hour
In lonely spaces
Drunk on dark wines
Of midnight
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~ Kahlil Gibran ~
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ~ Dennis Gabor ~
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ~ Marianne Moore ~
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ~ Carl Sandburg ~
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~Novalis~
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ~ Rene Char ~
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. ~ Kahlil Gibran~
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. ~ Native American Proverb ~
We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are. ~ The Talmud ~
