Quotes About Experience

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.

The best poems come from the world, go through the poet, and go back in to the world.

I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.

Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

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 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.

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.

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

I played point guard my whole life.

It's natural to me. I played point guard my whole life up until my senior year of high school. Most people don't know that. It's just in my game.

I played the two guard in college, and playing point guard is what I've done all my life.

In college, I got better at playing the 2, kind of got a feel for it coming off screens, found my rhythm. Before that I was a natural point guard.

I played point guard in the past and I know myself.

I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.