Quotes About Passion

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

I would like to talk about poems like I talk about football.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.

My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

I write poems.

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.

Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.