Quotes About Expression

I love poetry - just to read it and be around it.

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.