Quotes About Creation

For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.

I always wanted to, at some point, sit down and consider how to plot out one piece of work, one album, from start to finish.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

There's a phrase that art is something created by the few and admired by the many. Now it's not created by the few, it's created by anyone. They just plug in a drum machine and read some dirty high school poetry.

I decided to plunge into the creation of Telangana. And I didn't to do it half-heartedly - didn't want people to point a finger at me and say, 'Look, another actor is using politics to get noticed.'

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.

Men were created to have facial hair like women were created to be smooth-faced. Well, not all women. I've seen pockets where that's not the case, and that's not good.

In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.

Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.

For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time.

The poem that became the song 'Gold All Over the Ground' was written during 1967, when my dad was really falling in love with my mother.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

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 started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that.

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

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.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

The best poems come from the world, go through the poet, and go back in to the world.