Quotes About Expression

Why then we should drop into poetry.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

I really came to literature through poetry.

Each man has his own batch of poems.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.

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

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.