“Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.” IdeasAgePoetProfessionChosenMagazinesEditorsFifteenPublishersProceduresMagazine Editors Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom
“We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?” AsksSubjectsPoetChosen Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'” PeopleKnowsHas BeensMadeProblemInspirationJobsArtistCertainBornImaginationGroupsPoetCallingDifficultyCuriosityPrivilegeSolveChosenExclusiveSetbackSwarms Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and the viewer, so it's close to what a musical composer does, or a poet or a dancer. It is coming out of one's inner being.” ArtistPoetMusicalChosenDancerComposer Author:Philip Taaffe
“Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial identity and used that as a form of argumentation, I'm thinking now's a good time to buy low for my own poems and write poems that are deeply in the interior and the psyche. There are plenty of people out there working on subjects of political poetry, partisan poetry, all the way through to crossing the threshold of propaganda. I start thinking now's a good time for me to start writing about the myths of my own psyche.” PeopleThinkingWritingPoliticalValuesIdentityPoetMythChosenPlentyPropagandaGood TimesIdiom Author:David Biespiel