Quotes About Life

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

twice I have lived forever in a smile

Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?