Quotes About Expression

That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and more of that.

Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.

Even when I was in school, I was doing papers and writing poems; I always had an edge to my delivery. It was never conscious, but it was more so my organic way of thinking about things.

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

I write poems.

If you sit down to write a limerick, you find yourself straddling two histories: the history of the limerick form itself, which stretches back to at least the 11th century, and your personal history of knowing limericks or poems similar to limericks.

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.

Everybody that read one of my poems went off and wrote poetry. They said that about the Velvets, didn't they? They didn't sell many records, but everybody that saw them formed a band.

Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?