Quotes About Art

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

In poetry, only emotion endures.

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.