Quotes About Inspiration

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.