Quotes About Inspiration

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

I love to write poetry.

Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.