Quotes About Transformation

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

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.

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.

I have been eating poetry.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

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.

Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me dies many times.