Quotes About Expression

I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

I am a poet, and I speak poetically.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it's this openness, this accessibility of poetry that makes it the language of people.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

I saw an e-mail from one guy who's about 23 to one of peers. His parting sign-off was 'Don't let the bedbugs bite.' Now that's really poetic.

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language.

I may not be poetic but i'd love to write songs that convey my true feelings.

The music that we listen to these days, everything is right there in your face. There's no real mystery. It's not poetic. I want people to think. I want to make people listen to my lyrics.

I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.

For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free.

I try to use a poetic language more than talk about my feelings, but it is married to the music.

In 'Blindspotting' I play a girl from Oakland, I've got an accent, I've got long, '90s 'Poetic Justice' braids, and in 'Monsters and Men' I play a girl from Brooklyn.

I was taught that poems don't end, they just kind of stop. There's never an ending to a poem; it's a continuation for later. When I write, I write for me, and I write in poetic form.