Quotes About Reflection

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.