Hannah Kent Quotes

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and so you write about it.

I love all the characters I write.

I often say poetry was my first love.

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.

What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.

I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.

Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize!... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.

Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.