Quotes About Life

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

Poetry cannot take sides except with life.

I know many lives worth living.

I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.

Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both on the physical plain, and the soul plain. Poetry helps us endure.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.