Quotes About Thought

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

The color of the flower has faded, while I lost myself in idle thought in this long rain / ???? ??????? ????? ??????? ???????

~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.

Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.