Quotes About Inspiration

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.