Quotes About Nonconformity

Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.

Aberrant is not abhorrent

Don't be a slave to society!

If you conform, you miss all of the adventures and stand against the progress of society.

Go beyond the boundary of conformity to find the true joy of life.

Your life is not meant to be lived in a way to satisfy someone's expectation out of you! Live your life in your own way.

Don't worry about being a normal person, let the normal person worry about not being you.

You are a prisoner of conformity when you care about what other people think.

If you want to conform, then how can you change?

We are still living in the deep darkness of conformity.

Generate an idea which you can follow, not what people would interpret.

How can you reform when you are always busy conforming?

If you conform, you can never reform.

Go out of societal conformity to see and create uplifting beauty.

If you blend in, you don't stand out.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.