Quote:- The poet dreams of the mountainSometimes I grow weary of the days, with all their fits and starts.I want to climb some old gray mountains, slowly, takingThe rest of my lifetime to do it, resting often, sleepingUnder the pines or, above them, on the unclothed rocks.I want to see how many stars are still in the skyThat we have smothered for years now, a century at least.I want to look back at everything, forgiving it all,And peaceful, knowing the last thing there is to know.All that urgency! Not what the earth is about!How silent the trees, their poetry being of themselves only.I want to take slow steps, and think appropriate thoughts.In ten thousand years, maybe, a piece of the mountain will fall.
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Author:- Mary Oliver
Category:- poetry,inspiration
Quote:- the poet I saw once...but whose words have long beenin my mind, windows of invincible candles...
The Neverfield: Poem
Author:- Nathalie Handal
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.
Author:- Fernando Pessoa
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.
Author:- Paul Eluard
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
Author:- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.... One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word; one must be able to give one's writing unexpected effects. It must have a hectic, anguished vehemence, so that it rushes past like a gust of air, and it must have a latent, roistering tenderness so that it creeps and steals one's mind; it must be able to ring out like a sea-shanty in a tremendous hour, in the time of the tempest, and it must be able to sigh like one who, in tearful mood, sobs in his inmost heart.
Author:- Knut Hamsun
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.
Maldoror and the Complete Works
Author:- Comte de Lautréamont
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The Poet With His Face In His HandsYou want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn’t need anymore of that sound.So if you’re going to do it and can’t stop yourself, if your pretty mouth can’t hold it in, at least go by yourself acrossthe forty fields and the forty dark inclines of rocks and water to the place where the falls are flinging out their white sheetslike crazy, and there is a cave behind all that jubilation and water fun and you can stand there, under it, and roar all youwant and nothing will be disturbed; you can drip with despair all afternoon and still, on a green branch, its wings just lightly touchedby the passing foil of the water, the thrush, puffing out its spotted breast, will sing of the perfect, stone-hard beauty of everything.
New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
Author:- Mary Oliver
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire.He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought
Author:- Arthur Rimbaud
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.
Author:- Jacques Derrida
Category:- philosophy,poetry
Quote:- The poet's business is to imagine what it is impossible to know.
Author:- Marty Rubin
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
Author:- Jane Kenyon
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without a poet is a mere heap of clay. If the purpose of poetry is the fashioning of men, poetry is likewise the heir of prophecy.
Author:- Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal
Category:- best
Quote:- The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?
Brion Gysin Let the Mice In
Author:- Brion Gysin
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Author:- Mary Roach
Category:- science
Quote:- The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.
Author:- Leonard Bernstein
Category:- inspiration