Quotes About Expression

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.