Quotes About Art

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Let yourself become living poetry.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.