Quotes About Inspiration

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

I don't write poetry when I wish, I write when I can't, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.