Quotes About Perception

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

I am from the Mediterranean area, I have to feel everything. I am a physical person, but I guess that things that you cannot touch and cannot see are also touchable and visible—light, poetry, music.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.