Quotes About Art

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

I really came to literature through poetry.

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.

I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

No one ever expects poetry to sell...

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.