Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The journey is my home.
Exchange is creation.
One writes in order to feel.
My lifetime listens to yours.
Try to live as if there were a God
Flight is intolerable contradiction.
Reality is the completion of experience.
Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.
All the poems of our lives are not yet made.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter.
A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.
I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.
The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always live
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.
dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.
However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.
We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us.
