Quotes About Reflection

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort of thinking and concentration, even if it's just for a few moments.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that you're in on your own journey.

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

Poetry is a break for freedom.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.