Quotes About Inspiration

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

I really came to literature through poetry.

Each man has his own batch of poems.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.