Quotes About Art

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

Poetry is a break for freedom.

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration