Quotes About Expression

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.