Quotes About Discovery

Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.

I was living in Britain and then America, but it wasn't until I returned to live in Ireland in the late '70s that I really became aware of Seamus Heaney. I discovered quickly that his poems are very accessible.

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

Every contemporary poet is a door to another poet.

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

My brother and I were brought up sort of thinking that we were English. I remember hearing the poet Roy Campbell on the radio and being quite shocked that he had a South African accent. I didn't know there were any South African poets.

I did a school fashion show, and I got scouted there, but I wasn't very interested in modeling at that point.

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it.

History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.

Progress in science occurs in fits and starts, and paradigm shifts occur when evidence can be marshaled to support a new point of view.

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan.

Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.

If we go and see hundreds of different market resources, you are seeing hundreds of different points of view, and once in a while, my experience is, you will come across one or two that are just outstanding, and you never would have thought of them.

The love of my life found me! That's how he would say it, anyway, since he claims he was attracted to my energy before I even turned around.

The clarinet has always been my baby. I just didn't know that for a while.