Quotes About Art

I like poems that are complex.

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 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.

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

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.

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They never leave the house. They're too disclosing.

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.

I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best.

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the page, or people read them aloud, or I read them aloud, the musicality will be kind of a given.

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

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

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

I write poems.

Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.