Quotes About Expression

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say, 'Here are some poems. Do they speak to you? What do you hear in them?'

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

I've always thought my poems told stories.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

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.

My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.