Quotes About Reflection

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

Life is a poem most people never read.

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.