Quotes About Reflection

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

Poetry is life distilled.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

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