Quotes About Communication

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.

There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they were first shared with us.

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

I think the most important position in the league now is the point guard.

It's hard to play basketball without a point guard - it's an important position.

Once you see the leader of the team, the point guard of the team who has the ball pretty much the whole time in the game directing everybody, I think it just rubs off on everybody.

I grew up as a point guard, and as a point guard you learn how to navigate situations.

I play a certain way and played like that for a while. Maybe you want a point guard to shoot 20 times, I like more to pass the ball and do my job running the team.

Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people - the emotions and stuff like that.

For me, as a point guard, you have to construct everything. If you make everybody happy, you are going to be happy.

As a point guard, I'm a coach on the floor. I know that.

I think, in any debate, you have to respect the other person's point of view, if you agree or disagree.

I'm very confident in my point of view. 'Cause I think that that's all you can really have. I'm never really going to know what anybody else is going through, so it's just kind of your job to be expressive with your point of view.

I don't understand why any country is given a chance to make its point of view seen and heard by the world, and Russia is not given that chance.

I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

I like tough relationships. I think relationships with conflict are good for you - you learn. But you can't listen too much. I have a strong point of view, and it's important that I fight for my ideas.