Quotes About Expression

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

I am a reflection of my mother's secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

The poetry is myself.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain