Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.

I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.

I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

I want the power that comes from expressing myself creatively and putting something back into the world. Being someone's muse would be flattering, but it could get old fast.

Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.