Quotes About Inspiration

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.

Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.