Quotes About Expression

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

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

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.