Quotes About Inspiration

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

I would like to talk about poems like I talk about football.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

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

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.