Quotes about Expression
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
- John Lennon
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
- Robert Frost
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
- William Hazlitt
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
- Cicero
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
- Henry David Thoreau
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
- Philip Yancey
Why then we should drop into poetry.
- Charles Dickens
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
- CS Lewis
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
- Henry David Thoreau
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
- John Keats
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson