Quotes About Inspiration

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

I am a reflection of my mother's secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.