Poetry Quote by Luís Vaz de Camões — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Love is a fire that burns unseen,”

“You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows not why." If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because Harris has been eating raw onions, or has put too much Worcester over his chop.”

“You will come away bruised.”

“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,”

“A man walks into a bar and says:”

“I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.”

“I write because there are things in me that cannot die.”