Quotes About Expression

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.

I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.