Quotes About Reflection

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

I am a reflection of my mother's secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

The poetry is myself.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.

Even ivory towers need central heating.