Quotes About Inspiration

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.