Quotes About Expression

Don't Let That Horse . . ." from A Coney Island of the Mind. Don't let that horse eat that violin cried Chagall's mother But he kept right on painting And became famous And kept on painting The Horse With Violin In Mouth And when he finally finished it he jumped up upon the horse and rode away waving the violin And then with a low bow gave it to the first naked nude he ran across And there were no strings attached

telling over to myself/ how beauty never dies/ but lies apart/ among the aborigines/ of art/ and far above the battlefields/ of love

and balancing on eye beams/ above a sea of faces/ paces his way/ to the other side of day

Paper may burn but words will escape.

Like a bowl of roses, a poem should not have to be explained.

I have heard a hundred housebroken Ezra Pounds. They should all be freed. It is long since I was a herdsman.

Yes the world is the best place of all for a lot of such things as making the fun scene and making the love scene and making the sad scene

A poetry reading builds up to a climax, and if it's a success it leaves the audience somewhat high." —Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I am a hill where poets run. I invented the alphabet after watching the flight of cranes who made letters with their legs. I am a lake upon a plain. I am a word in a tree. I am a hill of poetry. I am a raid on the inarticulate. I have dreamt that all my teeth fell out but my tongue lived to tell the tale. For I am a still of poetry. I am a bank of song. I am a playerpiano in an abandoned casino on a seaside esplanade in a dense fog still playing.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

Fuck Art, let's Dance!

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication.

Poetry is the shortest distance between two humans.

Think long thoughts in short sentences.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

La persuasión exigía utilizar palabras convincentes: de los que saben pero no tienen «el poder para expresarlo claramente», bien se puede decir que no saben nada.

In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

Children don't say, "I had a hard day at school today; can I talk to you about it?" They say, "Will you play with me?

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. –

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.

Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.