Quotes About Individuality

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

Men were created to have facial hair like women were created to be smooth-faced. Well, not all women. I've seen pockets where that's not the case, and that's not good.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

Even when I was in school, I was doing papers and writing poems; I always had an edge to my delivery. It was never conscious, but it was more so my organic way of thinking about things.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.

A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

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

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.