Quotes About Expression

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

Has it ever occurred to you, ' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

Language is fossil poetry

Every man is a poet at heart.

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

How do you knowyou're a girl?I'm wearing a frock.And if you take it off?I get cold, so I putit back on.If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.

How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …

I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.

I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters, but I always seem to lay us out bare.Sorry for the poems.

My life was a blank paper, until you came to rhyme with words & make it a poetry book. ? ?

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.