Quotes About Art

You can't write poetry on the computer.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of 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 colors.

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.