More From Joni Mitchell
- "I’m a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that’s the nature of the work I do."
- "You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it’s just complaining."
- "I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic."
More In Poetry
- "In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry."― Andrew Motion
- "The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity."― George Oppen
- "On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."― Hu Shih