Quotes About Inspiration

I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

There were poets before Homer.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.