Quotes About Identity

I don't live life to be different.I live life to be the same.

When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves.

RACE INTERFACEIf God created man in his own image - What's his facial profile?Kamil Ali

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

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

Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.

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

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

. . . All artists' work is autobiographical. Any writer's work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.