Quotes About Expression

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

You can't write poetry on the computer.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.