Quotes About Inspiration

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

Poetry is fired by love.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

Has it ever occurred to you, ' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul...

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.