Quotes About Experience

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Life is a poem most people never read.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

Poetry can magnify experience.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.