Quotes About Individuality

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

We love the things we love for what they are.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

The poetry is myself.

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it." I hate that type of stuff.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

To do something very common, in my own way.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.