Quotes About Art

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.