Quotes About Perception

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.

In 'Blindspotting' I play a girl from Oakland, I've got an accent, I've got long, '90s 'Poetic Justice' braids, and in 'Monsters and Men' I play a girl from Brooklyn.

I was taught that poems don't end, they just kind of stop. There's never an ending to a poem; it's a continuation for later. When I write, I write for me, and I write in poetic form.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

I believe in the popularizing of art. But when you get right down to it, it's a bit of an elitist world. Not just economically elitist - how many people read poetry?

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

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