Quotes About Existence

God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.

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

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

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

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

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

A poem should not mean but be.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.

Life is a poem most people never read.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

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.

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

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.