With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Use this quote
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Use this quote
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. Use this quote
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. Use this quote
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. Use this quote
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. Use this quote
A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. Use this quote
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. Use this quote
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. Use this quote
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. Use this quote
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Use this quote
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Use this quote
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Use this quote
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Use this quote
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking. Use this quote
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. Use this quote
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. Use this quote
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. Use this quote
That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. Use this quote
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. Use this quote
