Gary Snyder Quotes

When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I use piano to convert my poems.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

I like walking and hiking, and many of the ideas for songs have germinated from this.

Language' is, I think, my favorite song that I've ever written.

I like writing love songs. I really like romantic poetry.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?