Quotes About Inspiration

A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories

Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

Poetry is the beauty of life.

Poetry is the essence and evidence of life.

When I stand strong in youI can look beyond the cloudsWith your wordsThe sun will rise again

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

It ain't so easy writing about nothin

Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.

Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.

With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Poetry is not a profession it's a destiny.

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.

A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.

An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.

If poetry dies, nothing lives !