Quotes About Creation

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

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.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.