Walker Percy Quotes

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

I love playing with words and texture.

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

I labor to be brief, and manage to be obscure.

I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.

There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.

I don't try to make things mysterious on purpose; I just try to make them interesting.

It's always helpful to put things down on paper. That's why I started writing.

I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

I love words, and I love that there's so many words available to make a point and to create a picture.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

I'm actually a true lyricist.

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

One thing that's really important to me in my music is mystery.

I'm really into poetry.