Quotes About Inspiration

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.

A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.