Quotes About Ideas

A country is poor not because they have no wealth but because they have no good ideas.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.

Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments.

Censorship: It allows you not to think for yourself.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.

In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.