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With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it’s the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I’m doing it right - acts as the perfect ‘blueprint’, and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music. (Poem Quotes)
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument. (Poem Quotes)
There’s a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can’t afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English. (Poem Quotes)
In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street (Poem Quotes)
The usual bad poem in somebody’s Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one’s teeth. (Poem Quotes)
I have experienced healing through other writers’ poetry, but there’s no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I’ll write a bad poem. (Poem Quotes)
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief. (Poem Quotes)
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem (Poem Quotes)
Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent. (Poem Quotes)
When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem. (Poem Quotes)
Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it’s being turned into a thousand songs. (Poem Quotes)
You can have a poem like B-Movie and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn’t. (Poem Quotes)
I write some country music. There’s a song called ‘I Hope You Dance.’ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it. (Poem Quotes)
I did a short film at Outfest, ‘Where Are the Dolls,’ based on an Elizabeth Bishop poem done, where I play this woman who is sort of walking the streets and ends up alone dancing in a club. I have this hot and heavy scene with a very beautiful actress. It became very popular. (Poem Quotes)
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. (Poem Quotes)
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart. (Poem Quotes)
When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet’s decision, it becomes the device’s decision. (Poem Quotes)
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it’s composition. If you don’t understand what it’s about, you’re depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem. (Poem Quotes)
A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being (Poem Quotes)
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. (Poem Quotes)
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. (Poem Quotes)
My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print! (Poem Quotes)
If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that’s the best (Poem Quotes)
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. (Poem Quotes)
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. (Poem Quotes)
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller. (Poem Quotes)
I find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story (Poem Quotes)
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child. (Poem Quotes)
The only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are (Poem Quotes)
To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my creative contemplation of an opened mind...it is a storytelling venture on a blank page of paper and white canvases...it is reclaiming my life. (Poem Quotes)