Quotes About Inspiration

Our best history is still poetry.

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

But, that was the beginning, though I didn't start writing until I was in high school and when I was in high school I really began to write poetry with great energy and enthusiasm.

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.

There's no preparation for poetry.

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.