Quotes About Expression

I know who the great poets are.

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

I didn't know any poets growing up in Kansas.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

The American public does not know poets exist.

There are very few great poets in the world.

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.