Quotes About Expression

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.