Quotes About Introspection

Life is a prison in which we find ourselves.

Politicians will always be honest.To themselves!

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn't 'soothe.'

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

All I know is a door into the dark

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.