Quotes About Introspection

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes close read, and to reveal that much, it's a bit nerve-racking.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

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.

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.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

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.

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

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

He moves in darkness as it seems to meNot of woods only and the shade of trees.

when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns

the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

Every man is a poet at heart.

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.