Quotes About Perception

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.