Quotes about Expression
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
- Oscar Wilde
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
- Samuel Johnson
Poetry is not a luxury.
- Audre Lorde
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
- Nikki Giovanni
Writing poetry is a state of free float.
- Margaret Atwood
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
- Aristotle
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
- Edith Schaeffer
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
- Helen Keller