Quotes About Expression

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

My father, composer Sardar Malik, used to say that a good musician should always try to imbibe good poetry. One reason why today's songs don't have a shelf life is because of inane lyrics.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

I believe that poetry should communicate.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

I love a little Richard Brautigan poetry.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.