Quotes About Expression

I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.

It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.

I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.

Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.

I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.

I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.

The best poems come from the world, go through the poet, and go back in to the world.

Every contemporary poet is a door to another poet.

My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places... I'll leave what I mean by 'places' ambiguous.

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet.

I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.

Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time.

I'm a poet.

There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.

I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.