Quotes About Self-discovery

Only you can find yourself by losing yourself again and again in the deep darkness of your driving desires.

Be yourself! Now that would be different!

Life is a prison in which we find ourselves.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own

How do you knowyou're a girl?I'm wearing a frock.And if you take it off?I get cold, so I putit back on.If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.

Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul.

I fell out of love with him and he thought I fell in love with someone else, I did. I fell in love with me.

A poem a day keeps the doctor away.

No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to LiberiaSlow dance across the SaharaSlow unraveling of gray matter

I tossed a stone into the Sea To see what it would do for me And the ripples went out And became ocean waves To return to the Sea inside of me

I'm a wanderessI'm a one night standDon't belong to no cityDon't belong to no man(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)