Quotes About Observation

The moon is the same but the observers are different.

It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it.

A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

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

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

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

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?

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

Poetry cannot take sides except with life.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".

To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.

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.

News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.