Josh Homme Quotes

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

I could write songs on the beach, but the interior darkness, we have it all. We have it.

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.

I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

You shine like a beacon in a dark world.

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

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

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.