Quotes About Expression

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul, you haven't experienced poetry.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.