Quotes About Inspiration

My mentor made me say a poem over and over. 'Stop! That's not your voice. Start again.' I was sobbing by the end, but it drilled into my head that my voice is important.

Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.

One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.

I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, 'Ink Orchid.' And still famous today is a thousand-year-old poem from the Tang Dynasty called 'Orchid and Orange.'

The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.

I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My concentration seems very short.

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.

The poem that became the song 'Gold All Over the Ground' was written during 1967, when my dad was really falling in love with my mother.

I have a favorite poem. From Rudyard Kipling. It's called 'L'Envoi.'

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

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

The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

I like poems and keep sharing them online.

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too.