Quotes About Inspiration

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort of thinking and concentration, even if it's just for a few moments.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that you're in on your own journey.

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.

But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.

Poetry is a break for freedom.