Quotes About Life

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death