Quotes About Inspiration

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.