“A phoneme, an utterance, could be said to be the beginning of poetry's evolutionary chain.”
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)
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“In silence the heart raves. It utters words
Meaningless, that never had
A meaning.”
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
"True Love"
Context: In silence the heart raves. It utters words
Meaningless, that never had
A meaning. I was ten, skinny, red-headed,
Freckled. In a big black Buick,
Driven by a big grown boy, with a necktie, she sat
In front of the drugstore, sipping something
Through a straw. There is nothing like
Beauty. It stops your heart. It
Thickens your blood. It stops your breath. It
Makes you feel dirty. You need a hot bath.
I leaned against a telephone pole, and watched.
I thought I would die if she saw me.
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist
Source: Americus, Book I
“Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart.”
Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer
Source: Wicked Intentions
Edwin Abbott Abbott book Flatland
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART I: THIS WORLD, Chapter 8. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
Context: An illustrious Circle, overcome by the artistic beauty of the forces under his command, threw aside his marshal's baton and his royal crown, exclaiming that he henceforth exchanged them for the artist's pencil. How great and glorious the sensuous development of these days must have been is in part indicated by the very language and vocabulary of the period. The commonest utterances of the commonest citizens in the time of the Colour Revolt seem to have been suffused with a richer tinge of word or thought; and to that era we are even now indebted for our finest poetry and for whatever rhythm still remains in the more scientific utterance of these modern days.
“If you only utter a single prayer in this life let it be Thanks, with all your heart”
Michael Elmore-Meegan (1959) British humanitarian
All Will be Well (2004)
“Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Source: The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887 1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy
“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet