Quotes About Inspiration

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Every word was once a poem.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Poets are born, not paid.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.