Quotes About Self

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Let yourself become living poetry.

The poetry is myself.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

I am so brave with love and yet, so weak.

Rest of my life is more important to me than politics

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.