Quotes About Art

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words. Some poems took years to find their words.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness: But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

...lyrical poems, deriving from everywhere and nowhere as is the case with all poetry...

Writing poetry is letting go— once the words leave your pen they're out of your soul and the therapy has begun.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Is there such a thing as pure unmingled poetry, poetry independent of meaning? Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Poetry is an inky soulprint.

Poetry is never abandoned, it is only remixed.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. The love of language is either itself a poetic gift or a symptom of it.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

A poem is a carefully gathered bucket of stars.

My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

A poem compresses much in a tight space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

There is no vagrant notion in your nature that poetry does not encourage.

Re Ezra Pound — poetry happens to be an art ;and artists happen to be human beings.

Prose is a photograph, poetry a painting in oil-colors.

By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours.

A poet swallows life and exhales painted words.

A poet rips his flesh on the thorn of language and bleeds raw ink onto paper petals.

I bleed words, Ink drops, and Poetry merges— Blackish-crimson Autobiography

Now to form the complete poet, neither heart only, nor head only, is sufficient: the complete poet must have a heart in his brain, or a brain in his heart. Such was Shakspeare, complete because he had both, and supreme because he had both to the highest degree.

The true power of the poet is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.