Aaron Neville Quotes

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

I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

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

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

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.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

I like to write poetry.

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.

Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.

I really liked writing rhyming poems and plays.

My friend Akshay Upadhyay and I used to write poetry and read out to each other.

I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.

I've written poetry most of my life.

I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.

The poems I did write there [in Harvard] include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties. And, of course, the John Harvard poem for the 350th anniversary Villanelle for an Anniversary.

Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.