Daily Spiring
Selected quotes that increases and impacts your creativity and sense of wonder.
Quote – Life & Self-Development
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.”
Quote – Boredom & Commitment
“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”
Quote – Promises & Hope
“What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.”
Quote – Poets & Sentiment
“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”
Quote – Possible Futures
“Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.”
Quote – Poetry Book Comparison
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
Don Marquis
Quote – Verse and Believability
“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”
Thomas Hardy
Quote – Poetry & Cheese
“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Quote – Poet & Roses
“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”
Jean Cocteau
Quote – Poems and Water Drinkers
“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.”
Horace
Quote – Invention and Poetry
“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
Gustave Flaubert
Quote – Experiences and Writing
“I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of them.”
John Ashbery
Quote – Poetry & Money
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”
Robert Graves
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