Willie Nelson Quotes

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration.

I was born to travel and write verse.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

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

Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. The first song I wrote was called 'Kitten.'

Since when I was little, I would always write a script and tell my sister, 'Read this line. I'm going to film it.'

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.