Quotes About Meditation

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

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.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.