Quotes About Expression

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.