Weyes Blood Quotes

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

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.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

I like poems that are little games.

I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

I've always thought my poems told stories.

A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.