Quotes About Art

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

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.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.