Quotes About Inspiration

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

. . . All artists' work is autobiographical. Any writer's work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.