Quotes About Introspection

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

I have been eating poetry.

Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.