Quotes About Exploration

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

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

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

All I know is a door into the dark

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

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

Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

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

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

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

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

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

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

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

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.