“I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.” IfsThinkingPersonsWholeReadingDifferencesPoetPersonalityReaderSitting Author:James Laughlin
“I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.” PoetryBlackWhiteStudyPoetSittingAwfulPushing Author:Anne Sexton
“Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?” ChildrenSaidLyingPoetryPoetSittingKitchen Author:Anne Sexton
“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.” KnowsWritingSacrificePoetWalkingSittingAdultsSensitiveNotebookSitting AroundWriting Things Down Author:Marc Maron
“Indolence of course is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.” CoursesFoundProcessCreativePoetLosingSittingScreensStaringCrucialFactoriesCreative ProcessTemperamentNursingStrollingIndolenceSofasGroveReverie Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.” PeopleIfsWorldWritingStillsDifferentRoomsDealsMillionsPoetCoupleSittingRaisesBullshitBucksYour Room Author:Abel Ferrara
“We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni Mitchell] will write exactly what she lives. If she puts some money in the soda machine, she'll write about putting money in the soda machine. "Dry Cleaner from Des Moines," on the Shadows & Light album, was about sitting next to a dry cleaner from Des Moines, playing a slot machine.” IfsWritingLightPoetryNextStuffTalkingPoetSittingShadowMachinesAlbumsDrySongwritersCleanersSodaSlot MachinesLyricistsDes MoinesDry Cleaners Author:Don Alias