Quotes About Inspiration

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

Poets take themselves very seriously.

The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that.

Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

Poets are not meant to be in competition.

Some directors are like poets.

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.

I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell.

You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a family of poets.

I grew up in Banaras on Kabir and other Hindi poets and then I got introduced to Faiz, Hasrat Mohani, Allama Iqbal and Majaaz. They took me to another facet of literature and drama.

I also want to sing the lyrics penned by poets like Srijato.

I am happy that I could collaborate with poets like O.N.V. Kurup and Yusufali Kechery in my career; they wrote meaningful lyrics, which made my songs last longer.

You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else's agenda. You want to write something that's poignant and moves people.

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.