Awareness Quote by John Ashbery

“Poetry is not life. Life is poetry.”

— Laurence Overmire

“Our actions write out our life's sequence...Poetry is life!”

— Darnaya Darice

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

— Sigmund Freud

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

— Edith Södergran

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright

“Poetry is a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, and your emotions, it's how you go through life in your own special way of…

— Anonymous

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

— Franz Grillparzer

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

— Khalil Gibran