Quotes About Expression

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.

A poem should not mean but be.

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.