Quotes About Art

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Poetry can magnify experience.

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Every word was once a poem.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

Poets are born, not paid.