Quotes About Reflection

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.