Quotes About Emotion

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

I believe that poetry should communicate.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

I love a little Richard Brautigan poetry.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

I love poetry - just to read it and be around it.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

Poets take themselves very seriously.

The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.

I also want to sing the lyrics penned by poets like Srijato.

Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.

'Must Feed and Water' is a love story told from the point of view of 'Love' as a character.

I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.