Quotes About Introspection

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Poets take themselves very seriously.

I'm at an age where crying is easier for me now. I like it. I can cry at a poignant commercial; I can cry at a - this is a running joke in my house, but... a good 'Star-Spangled Banner' can make me cry. I'm not kidding.

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.

You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else's agenda. You want to write something that's poignant and moves people.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

I played point guard in the past and I know myself.

I'm just coming from a more personal - and, I guess, more nostalgic - point of view.

From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that.

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.

You have to be responsible to yourself... but that doesn't mean you can't have a point of view about something.

The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.

I never saw myself as this big socialite, but from an outsider point of view, there was a lot going on.

When 'Himmatwala' didn't work, the negativity factor attached to the reviews were more pointed towards me. That's when I realized, that something has gone wrong.

This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

Then, in high school, I had a kind of mental breakdown; I didn't want to go to school anymore. It felt pointless. It was around the same time that I became really interested in music.

The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.