Quotes About Insight

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.

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

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.

I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.

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.

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

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

History is the new poetry.

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.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

History after all is the true poetry.

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

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

Hatred begets One with eyes Closed, The wiser's love cannot be sourced.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

You'd think hindsight would do us some goodBut all it does sometimesIs add glass to the kaleidoscope

Learn to use your third eye and you'll be able to see beyond the sky. There is no limit, except that which you impose upon yourself.

a generation:the black night gave me black eyesstill I use them to seek the light

The reader who is illuminated is in a real sense the poem.