Quotes About Understanding

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

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

I believe that poetry should communicate.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

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

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I think so do poets.

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.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.

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 always try to approach a film from the point of view of the director.

I identify entirely with Jane Austen's point of view, on everything.

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.