Tierra Whack Quotes

When I was 14 years old, I was crazy about Dr. Seuss. I loved the words he made up, and I just thought, 'Well, if he can make up words, then I can make up words.'

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story.

I love making up titles.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

I work a lot on words, so if I hear a word or see a word or a phrase or a sentence that someone says to me it just immediately sparks a concept.

In school, my favourite class was when we were given a subject for an essay on which we could freewheel. And poetry: I've always written it and loved the way words interact, in meaning and in sound.

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.