Quotes About Inspiration

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

Only poetry can address grief.

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both on the physical plain, and the soul plain. Poetry helps us endure.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.