Quotes About Discovery

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

All I know is a door into the dark

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

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

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Life is a poem most people never read.

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends