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