Quotes About Expression

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Poetry can magnify experience.

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Every word was once a poem.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.