Quotes About Art

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.

A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we sometimes forget that.

Traditional paintings have few figures in them and value negative space. Japanese calligraphy and brush paintings are in black and white. Haiku is the shortest poem form in the world. These are a few examples of a minimalistic aesthetic in Japanese art and culture.

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your head as you're writing it.

More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, 'Ink Orchid.' And still famous today is a thousand-year-old poem from the Tang Dynasty called 'Orchid and Orange.'

For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time.

They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

Looking across the many strands of poetry, we can never be certain which poems were only read in private and which were performed - and there are thousands of poems which were performed but never got written down.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.