Lewis Carroll Quotes

I'm really into poetry.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

Well-written words are music.

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I love playing with words and texture.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

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

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.

My first love is literature.

I'm a wizard at poetry.

I'm a poet.

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

If there's one thing I've written that could survive into posterity, I'd want that to be the poetry.

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.