#try

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#coming #course #having #insist #mind

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#life #music #poetry #art

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#poetry #art

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#artist #painting #poem #poet #poetry

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. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain. ↗

— Aberjhani

#despair #grief #national-poetry-month #pain #peace-movement

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. ↗

— Robert Frost

#poetry #religion #forgiveness

If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is. ↗

— Chad Sugg

#congratulations #hope #humanity #inspiration #inspirational

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#poetry #inspirational

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#life