Quotes About Inspiration

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.