Quotes About Introspection

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

The poetry is myself.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it." I hate that type of stuff.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

Poetry is not a luxury.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.