Quotes About Expression

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

No one ever expects poetry to sell...

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.