No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.
Your personality should be described in poem not in paragraph.
And life goes on like this, an uncomplete poem.
I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
End with an image and don't explain.
There is/no reasoning with need.
We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible.
I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.
Love is the first wisdom in life.
Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life.
If you believe it, it is.
