Quotes About Inspiration

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

That's all you really hope for from a book – that it's going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.