“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”– Muhammad Iqbal Related Quotes “Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything – these are sort of ‘ideal’ poems that one feels ought to be written, but don’t because (I fancy) they lack the vital spark of self-interest. A ‘real’ poem is a pleasure to write.”— Philip Larkin “While I’ve had a great distaste for what’s usually called song in modern poetry or for what’s usually called music, I really don’t think of speech as so far from song.”– David Antin “Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.So I’ll tell a secret instead:poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes,they are sleeping. They are the shadowsdrifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to dois live in a way that lets us find them.”— Naomi Shihab Nye