Quotes About Beauty

Poetry's object is truth.

What can be explained is not poetry.

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.