Quotes About Revelation

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

Poetry's object is truth.

Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.