Lisa Unger Quotes

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

An empty canvas is full.

I love writing different things.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon – even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.