Quotes About Artistic

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

. . . All artists' work is autobiographical. Any writer's work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.