Aimee Bender Quotes

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Working with language requires beauty for me.

Music is the most amount of joy or good I can do in the world.

A poem is no place for an idea.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language into people's space. Because there is something deep inside of us that responds to cared for language, whether it's literary, poetry, or really good lyrics in a song.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

I like to write, and I try to be positive and optimistic.

I try to make statements that aren't broad because that doesn't make for good writing. I don't get commentary as my job, because I'm not very good at that. The way I do it is by writing songs, and I have to be small; I have to make the stories a bit personal.

One of my sayings is: look good, feel good, do good.

My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.

If I don't do a bit of theatre at least once a year, I feel depleted and starved.

I would be a very sad person if I didn't have dance in my life. However I can, whatever I do, I just feel a lot of joy. Even if I am sad, if you take me to a rehearsal hall, I will automatically become happy.

I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me.

I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.

I'm really into poetry.

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

Poetry is an act of peace.

There are poets and there are grownups.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as an individual with that tongue-in-cheek kind of humor...well, it didn't always lend itself to my poetry. When you're writing poetry, it's like working with gold, you can't waste anything. You have to be very economical with each word you're going to select. But when you're writing fiction, you can just go on and on; you can be more playful. My editor's main task is to cut back, not ask for more.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.