Quotes About Interpretation

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

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.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

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

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

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

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

Some directors are like 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.

I also want to sing the lyrics penned by poets like Srijato.

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

I always try to approach a film from the point of view of the director.

I wanted the ending of 'Water Lilies' to be open, so that everyone can have their point of view about what will happen to the girls.

When I hear a story, I think about it from the point of view of the audience.

Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view.

I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.