Quotes About Expression

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

If you don't have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can't chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It's like having peas and no pod.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Music is poetry with personality.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.