Quotes About Perspective

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

History is the new poetry.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

Each man has his own batch of poems.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

History after all is the true poetry.

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

All poetry is political, to some degree.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

You think it's a game?Unintelligible? Ha!Envision no spoons.This is serious.It is a matter of joyversus emptiness.

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.

You'd think hindsight would do us some goodBut all it does sometimesIs add glass to the kaleidoscope

You were, arecactus tourism. meeting you: granularfractals borrowed from oceans.

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.