Quotes About Expression

Poetry is the scholar's art.

...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

In an endless silence even screams sound silent.

Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.