Quotes About Expression

Modern poets mix much water with their ink.

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

Thus, Whitman set out to express in his poetry the soul of his Culture awakening into self-consciousness on its own soil. Not only is the Faustian soul self-conscious; it is eternally restless, constantly striving upward, and possesses a sense of spiritual infinity. All these characteristics are given expression in Whitman's poetry.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...

Poetry is just the evidence of a life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

And poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

I would define... the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty.

Disrespect for poets is a kind of tradition.

poets swing too high until the chain kinks and snaps mid-air the fall is poetry

The eye is the only note-book of the true poet...

I sew my life together with the glittering threads of poetry.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

Words are rather the drossy part of poetry; imagination the life of it.

If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow.

The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it.

Prayer is communication with the Divine. It can be whispered or chanted or written or expressed in the work you do. However it is expressed, it is never in vain.

It is of course possible to dance a prayer.

Oaths are the fossils of piety. The geologist recognizes in them the relics of a once active devotion, but they are now only counters and pebbles tossed about in the unconscious play of expression. The lighter and more constant their use, the less their meaning.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech.