Quotes About Expression

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

The cliche is dead poetry.

I don't write poetry when I wish, I write when I can't, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.