Quotes About Creativity

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

I like poems and keep sharing them online.

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

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

'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.

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

I've always thought my poems told stories.

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

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

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.

My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.