- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.
- Suicide
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- Nov 07, 2020