Robert Frost Quotes

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Love is the reason you were born.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

I'm entranced by Amanda Lovelace's work. She wrote two wonderful books, 'The Princess Saves Herself in This One' and 'The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One.' You can feel your heart opening because she says things that you thought only you felt.

I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks To Angels,' those lyrics did something to me.

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

If you listen to what I'm saying, there's always a reason for it. Always. And it always comes from my heart, a place of love.

I am a balladeer. People fall in love to ballads, and that is what makes the world go round.

You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?