Lisa Joy Quotes

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual.

The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In the long secret dust of ages, beneath a blue forgotten sky, where trade winds caress the sun bleached shores of unknown realms ... See, as much as there are words in poetry, there is a poetry in words. Use it, stay faithful to the path you have set your heart upon and follow it.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

I write everything. It's my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing.

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

I think that I'm going to write a bigger thing, and then I end up writing about people, and the bigger thing recedes into the background, and hope that it's still there.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

When you're doing a concept album, it's easy. It's like a movie: you already know what you're dealing with.

I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.

My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

I really came to literature through poetry.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.