John Millington Synge Quotes

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

So many of my songs are based on things that either happened to me or to someone I know, but there are also ones where I've written a made-up story. All of them are about very real emotions, and I just find different ways to express them.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

I think, with music, I'm a lyricist who talks about real life things.

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.

Each character represents a different color on the big palette of what this ultimate painting is going to look like, who your guy is, and just try to be as honest and simple and real as you can possibly be. The outer trappings are incidental - costumes, period, makeup - all of that is rather insignificant at the end of the day.

I did a film recently in the Republic of Georgia [upcoming 'Halo of Stars'] which was based on a long poem written by the director. We found that all these words were beautiful as a poem, but for humans it was more about the emotion or a look than just saying what was there.

... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

I don't look at myself on the outside. Sometimes you feel like you're not really there and need one more [take], because I feel like something is coming out. I don't really know what but I need to get it out.

First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".