Quotes About Expression

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.