Quotes About Awareness

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

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

This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort of thinking and concentration, even if it's just for a few moments.

You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner.

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

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

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

All poetry is political, to some degree.

the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own

Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

You are only as touched my the magic of this life as you want to be.

No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to LiberiaSlow dance across the SaharaSlow unraveling of gray matter

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.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.