Quotes About Inspiration

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

I love a little Richard Brautigan poetry.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

I love poetry - just to read it and be around it.

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

I know who the great poets are.