Quotes About Inspiration

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.