Quotes About Inspiration

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

Poetry could be a brilliant antidote to some of our current cultural problems...our collective attention deficit.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

we only read when you write

the work of his favourite painter at the time, brett whitely, seemed to offer some focus for his rebellious attitude towards moribund suburban melbourne. cave was intrigued by the intensity and diversity of the themes that the sydney-based painter included in his landscapes

Great men are not made by propaganda, but grow out of their actions

The last song recorded for Abbey Road was Lennon's BECAUSE - a three-part harmony in C sharp minor inspired by hearing Yoko Ono play the Adagio sostenuto of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14, Op. 27 No. 2 (Moonlight).

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Time spent in the company of remarkable men is time well spent.

he looked up and around him in awe and amazement. And saw the faces in the architecture.

Answer me, Enlightened One, Empowered One, Mother of Velocity.

If you want to write, you must write experience. What it is to be that thing. There is everything in a moment.

imagine the chimneys billowing smoke. Concentrate on those chimneys, can you see them? STUDENT: I can see them.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

Freedom is expressing our true spirit 'love'. Independence is sustaining this freedom inspite of all inhibitions.

Here's to all the songs and all their singers, in times of darkness and times of light.

latest notebook – he filled dozens of

Movie composer Henry Mancini, stimulated by Audrey to write 'Moon River' and 'Charade' and 'Two for the Road', always maintained that if you listened carefully to these three songs you could almost determine who inspired them. They were all imbued, he said, with Audrey's inimitable wistfulness – 'a kind of slight sadness'.

I never travel without my sketch book.

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.