Quotes About Inspiration

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.