Knut Hamsun Quotes

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.