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“And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me.”

Thinking Knows Heart Mean Littles Hands Artist Poet My Heart Drawing Bedroom Notebook

Author:Conor Oberst

“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.”

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.”

Littles Serious Poet Filled Notebook

Author:Denis

“What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.”

Knows Writing Sacrifice Poet Walking Sitting Adults Sensitive Notebook Sitting Around Writing Things Down

Author:Marc Maron

“Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.”

Writing Firsts Looks Serious Poet Hero Cherish Notebook Writing Poems Romantic Poet

Author:John Dufresne

“The eye is the notebook of the poet.”

Eye Literature Poet Notebook

Author:James Russell Lowell