Quotes about Inspiration
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
— Vincent Van Gogh
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
— Oscar Wilde
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
— AA Milne
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
— Samuel Johnson
Poetry is not a luxury.
— Audre Lorde
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
— Nikki Giovanni
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.
— Confucius
Writing poetry is a state of free float.
— Margaret Atwood
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
— John Wesley
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
— Aristotle