Quotes About Experience

I did loads of jobs all the way through college, just for a bit of money in my pocket. There were some tough jobs, but I was lucky enough I enjoyed doing them. It was okay.

The Britons bankrupted me. I came to their country with £10 in my pocket and they gave me £1 back. But in between I had one hell of a ride.

Acting is the only profession in the world where you can travel and see various places without having to spend money from your own pocket.

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time.

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time.

A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea.

If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

The animal encounter poem is now so distinct a genre that it would be possible to create a full-length anthology from deer encounter poems alone, and many varieties of experience would emerge from such an exercise.

I've always thought my poems told stories.

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what happens to me during the day that I don't want to forget. So I have books filled with little things like that.

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

You litter poems with too much learning when you're younger.

That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and more of that.

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.