Quotes About Individuality

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

Each man has his own batch of poems.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

How do you knowyou're a girl?I'm wearing a frock.And if you take it off?I get cold, so I putit back on.If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.

I say every dog looks like no otherbut that isn't true. Not entirely.Difference is slippery.

I've never met anyone who loves in the same way. But that's the beauty of finding the heart meant for yours. The right love will accept the 'not so lovable' parts of you too.

I fell out of love with him and he thought I fell in love with someone else, I did. I fell in love with me.

I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.

Man is in his own microcosm akin to a personal box, with poetry as its lid which it can defend itself from the world

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.