There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make equal what is unequal.
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
“I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Poetry should express the apex, should constitute a kind of pioneering outpost in the unexplored area of life
Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
“The peoples of civilization see their wretchedness increase in direct proportion to the advance of industry.”
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
“What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.
Failure is not fatal until we surrender trying again is the key of glorious victory.
Do not rush to make friends, but when you are, try to stay.
We try gold in fire, we know our friends in mishaps.
I am a voice which belongs to the tormented country
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Beyond the earth, beyond the farthest skies I try to find Heaven and Hell. Then I hear a solemn voice that says: "Heaven and hell are inside.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.
Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.
Poetry is my breath; poems are my bread.
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
"Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.”
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
It is impossible to work at the same time upon frontispieces of books: a Virgin: at the picture for the congregation of St. Louis, at the designs for the gallery, and for the king's tapestry! I have only a feeble head, and am not aided by anyone!
Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.
We should try to be happy, just to set an example.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.”
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.
“One day in the country Is worth a month in town”
“When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Now, try to put on a black skin for five minutes. I know you find this hard to do, but there is no other way to get the living feel of our situation.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.
A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
In giving advice, try to help, not to please.
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome.
“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these arts. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts, every act is an art.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
"The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry."
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.