Quotes About Expression

Poetry is the essence and evidence of life.

All that is not prose passes for poetry.

It ain't so easy writing about nothin

Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.

Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.

A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.

If poetry dies, nothing lives !

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.