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

“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”

“The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.”

“Wisdom lies in voluntary finitude and a timely change of heart: until maturity, multiplying the inclusions, up to the limit of natural faculty and moral harmony; afterwards, gladly relinquishing zone after zone of vegetation, and letting the snow-peak of integrity rise to what height it may.”

“The muffled syllables that Nature speaks”

“The worship of power is an old religion.”

“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”

“The Night Is Darkening Round M”

“What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring,”

“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.”

“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea”

“The thing I admire most”

“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”