#rite

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#able #about #arrive #breakup #different

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#drive #experiences #get #i #life

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#art #disco #everything #many #misunderstanding

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry. ↗

— Ennio Morricone

#beethoven #bernard #did #happens #himself

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#big deal #both #conventional #deal #either

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#get #i #mint #myself #some

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#betray #i #me #moment #poem

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#hesitation #i #poems #saying #sentimental

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#carry #dream #hope #i #i write

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#board #doing #go #good #i