Quotes About Creation

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

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

Every word was once a poem.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

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".

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …

Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters.

Poetry of the universe is written with flowers and the lights of love on a canvas we call earth.

A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.