Quotes About Expression

A poem compresses much in a tight space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

There is no vagrant notion in your nature that poetry does not encourage.

Re Ezra Pound — poetry happens to be an art ;and artists happen to be human beings.

Prose is a photograph, poetry a painting in oil-colors.

By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours.

A poet swallows life and exhales painted words.

Her poetry cries crimson roses and laughs in spritely daisies.

Have faith in poets, for they have not been ashamed to tell you that men suffer. They have not been afraid to look life in the face: and often the encounter is more comforting than you had expected.

A poet rips his flesh on the thorn of language and bleeds raw ink onto paper petals.

I bleed words, Ink drops, and Poetry merges— Blackish-crimson Autobiography

There can be poetry in the writings of few men; but it ought to be in the hearts and lives of all.

The poet pursues the trouble in your heart as pitilessly as he has ferreted out his own.

It's easier to write poetry on a bad day, when your heart has been halved and emotions bleed out through the pen.

The true power of the poet is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Poetry cries melodic tears of verse.

Poetry should never hurt. It may stab you with poetic pangs of melancholy but shouldn't ever hurt as life does.

A poet rarely swashes ink but mostly mists at subtleties.

Poetry is the tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a partner.

The condition of society is one of homogeneity and hyperindustrialism, so the individual perceptions of body and mind are not valued. Poetry is not the expression of the party line. It's that time at night, laying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

VERS LIBRE. A device for making poetry easier to write and harder to read.

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.