Quotes About Expression

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

The poetry of country music will survive.

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.