Quotes About Exploration

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

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

I know many lives worth living.

When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

Outside our small safe place flies mystery.

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

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

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

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 road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

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

Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to LiberiaSlow dance across the SaharaSlow unraveling of gray matter

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

Eyes closed on an open soul...the world starts from within its core towards its final frontier: the end surface.

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

Push off, and sitting well in order smite the sounding furrows

I'm a wanderessI'm a one night standDon't belong to no cityDon't belong to no man(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.