Quotes About Reflection

History is the new poetry.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

Each man has his own batch of poems.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

I love to write poetry.

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

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