Quotes About Communication

I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.

A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

You pass a poem to the audience through the words as embodied literally by the rest of your human form. And the people listening and watching come back at you in an equally embodied way.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

Looking across the many strands of poetry, we can never be certain which poems were only read in private and which were performed - and there are thousands of poems which were performed but never got written down.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too.

I've always thought my poems told stories.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

I do think that all of us think in poems.

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

I write poems.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

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.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.