Quotes About Inspiration

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.

I have been eating poetry.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.