Quotes About Inspiration

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.

I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.

I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.

I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and by older friends and so on, so I think it is a benediction, and I also think it is a calling, a duty.

Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.

The best poems come from the world, go through the poet, and go back in to the world.

Every contemporary poet is a door to another poet.

My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places... I'll leave what I mean by 'places' ambiguous.

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years old that was my grandfather's, and I still carry it around with me.

I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet.

I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.

I'm a poet.

I think of the Tamil poet Subrahmanya Bharati every day, and he is an inspiration in my musical creations.

With 'Peradam', the nature of the project was such that it was deeply immersed in spiritual concepts in India and is based on the works of French poet Rene Daumal.

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.