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“When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them - without distortion which would mar their exact significances - into an intense expression of his perceptions and ardors that they may constitute a revelation in the speech that he uses. It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.”

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.”

Mind Enough Movement Expression Needed Purity Intensity

Author:Rudolf Nureyev

“It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.”

“There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.”

Action Wanted Pieces Expression Intensity Compelling

Author:Lisa Yuskavage

“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”

Death Poetry Dies Language Dying Expression Poetry Is Intensity Justified

Book:Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil