Quotes About Art

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

There are very few great poets in the world.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that.

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.