Quotes About Expression

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

. . . All artists' work is autobiographical. Any writer's work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.