Poetry Quote by George Eliot — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.”

“The gates of hell are open night and day;”

“Ah! well a-day! what evil looks”

“I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.”

“By the craggy hill-side,”

“Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high”