Quotes About Inspiration

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

It's not easy to define poetry.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.

My father, composer Sardar Malik, used to say that a good musician should always try to imbibe good poetry. One reason why today's songs don't have a shelf life is because of inane lyrics.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

I believe that poetry should communicate.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.