Quotes About Expression

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

The crown of literature is poetry.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges.

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

It's not easy to define poetry.