Quotes About Contrast

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

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

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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.

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

Over the inter glaciers, I see the summer glow, And, through the wild-piled snowdrift, The warm rosebuds below.

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down—It was not Night, for all the BellsPut out their Tongues, for Noon.

The red washingdown the bathtubcan't change the color of the seaat all.

I say every dog looks like no otherbut that isn't true. Not entirely.Difference is slippery.

You think it's a game?Unintelligible? Ha!Envision no spoons.This is serious.It is a matter of joyversus emptiness.

the light too brief to finish any work —the woman seeks to amplify the dark

a generation:the black night gave me black eyesstill I use them to seek the light

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.