Quotes About Artistry

But it would have made me a whore to leave it incomplete. It would have made it easier to leave future work incomplete. It would have made it more and more difficult to draw upon that additional aching surge of effort that is always the difference between integrity and deceit in a created work. I would not be the whore to my own existence. Can you understand that? I would not be the whore to my own existence.

I found the power to move beyond the steps, to not merely dance the part but to become it.

Creativity is the essence of fencing.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

These beings have no other profession than to cultivate the idea of beauty in their person, to satisfy their passions, to feel and to think.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Art is not a sack race.

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

Literature is not an instruction manual.

Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Devolva-se a humanidade à forja que a criou e utilizem-se martelos semelhantes para tornar a esculpi-la e ela se contorcerá na mesma imagem torturada.

until I almost thought he would gradually blow his whole being into the large hole at the top, and ooze away at the keys.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Accordingly, to create objects with soul, objects for a rich and beautiful world, we must invest them with life, self, and humanity; in other words, we must invest them with something of our selves. No

Art and composition tolerate no conventional fetters: mind and soul soar above them.

Pseudonym: writing under a false name so that one may write more truly.

I'd rather be stitchin' than in the kitchen!

I'm itchin' to be stitchin'!

I cannot count my day complete 'Til needle, thread and fabric meet.

Two most important things in a writer's wallet: library card and poetic license.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. What he does is to subject them to treatment which ensures their having the finest colour and the sweetest scent.

A poet is a flaming phoenix — burnt up with each and every poem.

A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it, and he's right.

And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...