Quotes about Poetry and Art

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. Votes: 4

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. Votes: 3

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated Votes: 3

Personality is everything in art and poetry. Votes: 2

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Votes: 2

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. Votes: 2

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. Votes: 2

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. Votes: 2

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. Votes: 2

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. Votes: 2

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. Votes: 2

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. Votes: 2

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. Votes: 2

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock. Votes: 2

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. Votes: 2

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music. Votes: 2

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. Votes: 2

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. Votes: 2

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible. Votes: 2

I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. Votes: 2

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. Votes: 2

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things. Votes: 2

Poetry is the scholar's art. Votes: 0

Made poetry a mere mechanic art. Votes: 0

Poetry is a totally different art than film. Votes: 0

Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom. Votes: 0

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. Votes: 0

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. Votes: 0

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God. Votes: 0

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language, Votes: 0

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation ... Votes: 0

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. Votes: 0

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. Votes: 0

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Votes: 0

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup. Votes: 0

An art is a poetry but only a few can read it. Votes: 0

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive. Votes: 0

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it. Votes: 0

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language. Votes: 0

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. Votes: 0

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. Votes: 0

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain Votes: 0

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. Votes: 0

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. Votes: 0

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. Votes: 0

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. Votes: 0

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade. Votes: 0

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat. Votes: 0

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. Votes: 0

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head. Votes: 0

Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art. Votes: 0

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. Votes: 0

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. Votes: 0

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books! Votes: 0

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. Votes: 0

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. Votes: 0

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. Votes: 0

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. Votes: 0

The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other. Votes: 0

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry. Votes: 0

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? Votes: 0

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough~? Votes: 0

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life. Votes: 0

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. Votes: 0

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. Votes: 0

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. Votes: 0

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. Votes: 0

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. Votes: 0

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Votes: 0

I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful. Votes: 0

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton. Votes: 0

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. Votes: 0

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields. Votes: 0

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. Votes: 0

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness. Votes: 0

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry. Votes: 0

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry Votes: 0

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts. Votes: 0

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols. Votes: 0

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality. Votes: 0

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting. Votes: 0

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. Votes: 0

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. Votes: 0

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. Votes: 0

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku. Votes: 0

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly. Votes: 0

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit. Votes: 0

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory. Votes: 0

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction? Votes: 0

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms. Votes: 0

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories." Votes: 0

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise. Votes: 0

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. Votes: 0

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks Votes: 0

If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art. Votes: 0

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music. Votes: 0

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world. Votes: 0

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed. Votes: 0

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing]. Votes: 0

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry. Votes: 0

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that. Votes: 0

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy. Votes: 0

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist. Votes: 0