Quotes About Perception

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.