Trees allow their old leaves to fall so they can then blossom.
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.
I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.
I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
ERIC: What are you always writin' in that book anyway? RODNEY: Poetry. TYRONE: Poetry? Rodney stops sketching and sentimentally flips through a few dozen pages of sketches and handwritten poems and notes. RODNEY: Poetry and pictures. Snapshots of our...
This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is ...
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy.
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
