Quotes About Discovery

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

I know many lives worth living.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.

Outside our small safe place flies mystery.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

Should I get lost, just point me in the direction of a poem.

When you are lost in the right way, you don't go back to being found in the wrong way.

You were, arecactus tourism. meeting you: granularfractals borrowed from oceans.