Quotes About Art

Poetry cries melodic tears of verse.

Poetry should never hurt. It may stab you with poetic pangs of melancholy but shouldn't ever hurt as life does.

A poet rarely swashes ink but mostly mists at subtleties.

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick, and say to yourself, when the works are laid out before you, the vowels, the consonants, the rhymes or rhythms, 'Yes, this is it. This is why the poem moves me so...' But you're back again where you began. You've back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in.

Poetry is the tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a partner.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

VERS LIBRE. A device for making poetry easier to write and harder to read.

Modern poets mix much water with their ink.

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.

I would define... the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty.

Disrespect for poets is a kind of tradition.

poets swing too high until the chain kinks and snaps mid-air the fall is poetry

I sew my life together with the glittering threads of poetry.

Words are rather the drossy part of poetry; imagination the life of it.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.

To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler.

Writing with Scissors (collecting, note-keeping, remaking)

Entertainment is the first function of radio and always will be, whether presented through a majestic polyphonic ensemble or through a lone artist whose talent grips millions by a single word.

In this narrow sense, World War II is a radio war, and radio is clearly an important weapon of warfare. But creatively, editorially, radio is an art, a business and a science, in that order of importance.