Writing Poems Quotes - Page 2

• I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school I used to love writing poems and poetry, so I guess I kind of put two and two together and that formed my songwriting from an early age.

  Ella Henderson

  Teaching, Writing, School

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• Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

  Jill Scott

  Writing, Firsts, So Hurt

  "Jill Scott no longer so quick to slash tires" by Tomika L. Anderson, www.mtv.com. September 27, 2004.

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• I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as Gram that someone, someday, somewhere might understand who I am, who my sister was, and what happened to us.

  Jandy Nelson

  Writing, Who I Am, Wind

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.158, Penguin

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• While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I absorbed the form, and I liked it, it was a good one, mostly the hard-boiled school, you know, Chandler, Hammett, and their heirs. That was the direction that interested me most.

  Paul Auster

  Reading, Writing, School

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

  Alice Walker

  Suicide, Writing, World

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.61, Rutgers University Press

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• One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, Writing, Love Is

  "The greatest Lemony Snicket quotes ever" by Heather Sandlin, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2015.

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• I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.

  Gary Snyder

  Girl, Children, Writing

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• Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.

  Jill Scott

  Hurt, Pain, Crazy

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• Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

  Jack Nicholson

  Suicide, Writing, Night

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• I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

  David Antin

  Writing, Thinking

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• I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

  Donald Hall

  Writing, Goal, Reason

  Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.154, University of Michigan Press

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• What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Teaching, Writing, Caring

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• When I am asked
  how I began writing poems,
  I talk about the indifference of nature.

  Lisel Mueller

  Writing, Indifference

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• The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Numbers, People

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• I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

  Kevin Powers

  Writing, Stories

  "Conversation: Kevin Powers, Author of ‘The Yellow Birds’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 4, 2012.

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• I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

  Stevie Nicks

  Song, Writing, Heart

  "Stevie Nicks On Fleetwood Mac’s Reunion Tour, Rihanna, Kanye West & Her Early Years In Music" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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• (Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.

  Willie Nelson

  Writing, Eight, Years

  "Willie Nelson: 'If We Made Marijuana Legal, We'd Save a Whole Lotta Money and Lives'" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an inner center of silence, gratitude, and 'awareness.' This can be realized in a life that apparently accomplishes nothing. Without centering on accomplishment or nonaccomplishment, my task is simply the breathing of this gratitude from day to day, in simplicity, and for the rest turning my hand to whatever comes, work being part of praise, whether splitting logs or writing poems, or best of all simple notes.

  Thomas Merton

  Gratitude, Writing, Simple

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• I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Character, Years

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• I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.

  Paul Auster

  Reading, Writing, Detectives

  "Big Think Interview With Paul Auster". Interviewed with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

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