Quotes About Expression

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.