Quotes About Expression

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

Poets take themselves very seriously.

The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

Poets are not meant to be in competition.

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.

I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n' roll audience for one night to keep them honest.

Not many poets have editors.

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

Some directors are like poets.

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.

I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.