Quotes About Inspiration

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

Poetry's object is truth.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.