Quotes About Inspiration

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

I didn't know any poets growing up in Kansas.

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.

I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

There are very few great poets in the world.

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.