Quotes About Expression

...lyrical poems, deriving from everywhere and nowhere as is the case with all poetry...

Writing poetry is letting go— once the words leave your pen they're out of your soul and the therapy has begun.

A poet cannot stop writing poems — an ink-stained soul compels his obsession.

Poets smoke nature and beauty and angst and exhale swirling plumes of poetry.

If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em. I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

If a poet writes in gibberish, his soul yet understands.

Is there such a thing as pure unmingled poetry, poetry independent of meaning? Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Poetry is an inky soulprint.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs which they have smothered and forgotten.

Poetry treks through our souls and tells us in rhyme of the adventure.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Poetry is never abandoned, it is only remixed.

A poet is a reporter, interviewing his own heart.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. The love of language is either itself a poetic gift or a symptom of it.

A poet is a flaming phoenix — burnt up with each and every poem.

A poet is inmate, and warden, to his own mind.

And the poet out-argues Nature.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

A poem is a carefully gathered bucket of stars.

A poet is the mocking-bird of the spiritual universe. In him are collected all the individual songs of all individual natures.

My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.