Quotes About Inspiration

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Painting is silent poetry.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.