Quotes About Inspiration

Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly fresh.

Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it's this openness, this accessibility of poetry that makes it the language of people.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

It wasn't until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a poet. I just always loved writing, period.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

In real life, having your poetry criticized by T.S. Eliot could cause you to doubt your poetic gifts. But imagining it in a dream has the opposite effect. That dream could become the source for a story.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language.

I may not be poetic but i'd love to write songs that convey my true feelings.

For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free.

I was taught that poems don't end, they just kind of stop. There's never an ending to a poem; it's a continuation for later. When I write, I write for me, and I write in poetic form.

The crown of literature is poetry.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.