Quotes About Expression

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

I love to write poetry.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.