Quotes About Expression

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.

It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.

The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.

I have been eating poetry.

Poetry cannot take sides except with life.

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing by yourself at 2 A.M.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.