poetic existence Quotes

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.

A poem should not mean but be.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

We are all writing God's poem.

Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

I am a poem. There is no way out.

I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry.