Quotes About Inspiration

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.