Quotes About Freedom

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

All things want to float.

Let yourself become living poetry.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.