Quotes About Expression

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".

Poetry cannot be translation

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

The poetry of speech.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

Only poetry can address grief.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.