Quotes About Mind

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

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.

Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

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.

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.

... the silenceHolds with its gloved handThe wild hawk of the mind.

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody else's head, in the dark snow of their mind.

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

Reading musses up my mind.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

I think politics come out of psychology.

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.