Quotes About Reflection

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

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

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.