Etgar Keret Quotes

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

I love to write poetry.

Lyricists play with words.

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

I like to write poetry.

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.

I love an imperfect rhyme.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

I love being creative in all forms.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

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.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

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.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

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

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

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.