"I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble of emotions and vague notions and scraps of knowledge. At some stage a form or, rather, a shape mysteriously emerges."

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Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

Michael Longley

#Writing Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.”
“To dwell means to belong to a given place.”
“Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.”
“If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.”
“The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.”
“Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.”
“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.”
“It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)”

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