Quotes About Introspection

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

. . . All artists' work is autobiographical. Any writer's work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.

Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.