Quotes About Inspiration

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.