Quotes About Expression

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize