Quotes About Perspective

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

My brother and I were brought up sort of thinking that we were English. I remember hearing the poet Roy Campbell on the radio and being quite shocked that he had a South African accent. I didn't know there were any South African 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.

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

I think, in any debate, you have to respect the other person's point of view, if you agree or disagree.

I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.

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 define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.

The 'Doom' thing is to be able to come at things with a different point of view. I decided the mask would just add to the mystique of the character as well as make Doom stand out. I though it'd be an easy way for people to see and differentiate between characters, sorta like when an actor gains weight for a role.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

I don't understand why any country is given a chance to make its point of view seen and heard by the world, and Russia is not given that chance.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

Women should be able to come out and narrate stories from their point of view.

I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't.

I clearly have a point of view; I am very passionate about my point of view. I am a commentator.