Quotes About Imagination

I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.

I was taught that poems don't end, they just kind of stop. There's never an ending to a poem; it's a continuation for later. When I write, I write for me, and I write in poetic form.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

The crown of literature is poetry.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

I like poems that are little games.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

I love a little Richard Brautigan poetry.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

I love poetry - just to read it and be around it.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

I know who the great poets are.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.