Quotes About Freedom

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

If there is one belief that unifies most Alaskans - our true north - it is less government and more freedom. We don't want the government in our pockets or our bedrooms; we certainly don't need it in our families.

I don't like to carry things in my pockets.

One thing I incorporated in my novel 'The Poe Shadow' was the little-known fact that documents show Poe inherited a slave and decided to free him.

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

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.

The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point.

In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

People can voice their different points of view. We are also a country where there will be criticism.

Let's just say I don't have any points on my licence, and I drive quickly sometimes.

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

Don't classify me, read me.

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

I don't get claustrophobic.