Poetry Art Quotes

Poetry Art Quote of the day

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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

Painting is silent poetry.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

Every old poem is sacred.

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

DESPITE THE INVENTION OF TIME MACHINES, WE KEEP BEING LINEAR.

THE AMPUTATED HEARTBEATS HARDER

I do not trust the truth. It shifts into reality.

in the corner of the painting of successthe signature is blurred

ERRORS ARE WHAT MAKE US HUMAN. PLOT TWIST: I'M A HORSE.

WORDS SHLD BE FREE. RELEASE THEM FROM THEIR SENTENCES.

Too much war, hatred and fear in the world.Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.

HER BARBED-WIRE SMILELIFTED YOU TO HEAVENBUT I HAVE TO ASKDID GOD LOOK LIKE HER VOICE

IT'S NOT THE HONEY WHISKEY IN A FRIDAY NIGHT - IT'S THE MANIC SHOW OF POETRY TWEETS THAT TURNS ME ON.

LIFE IS NEVER OVER.

I WISH YOU ALL THE REALITY YOU COULD EVER WANT. HANDLE. WANT.

YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING.