Quotes About Insight

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

All a poet can do today is warn.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

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

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

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

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

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?

Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.