Quotes About Expression

Let yourself become living poetry.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.