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Everything here is a small offense and not of value as art or confession. It is not a whim. It is an attempt to peel another putrid skin. — Patti Smith

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. — Boyd K. Packer

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is ... like a life without pictures. — Stephen King

If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things. — The Prolific Penman

Severed and gone, so many years!
And art thou still so dear to me,
That throbbing heart and burning tears
Can witness how I cling to thee? — Anne Bronte

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. — Aberjhani

Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope

In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
And arrived nowhere from nowhere. — Dejan Stojanovic

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Art,Poetry and Dreams are Ingredients of a gentle youth,it has a flow like the ebbing ocean waves,to and fro. — Nithin Purple

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral. — William Everson

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. — Charles Bukowski

Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions. — Debasish Mridha

I paint the darkness and the silence,
You see them as stars and poetry. — Jenim Dibie

The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions. — Girdhar Joshi

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

Muse's creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art. — Earl M. Coleman

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank. — Immanuel Kant

Art is long, and Time is fleeting. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting — Leonardo Da Vinci

The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other. — Edward Hirsch

Personality is everything in art and poetry. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts. — Oscar Wilde

To me, he is art, poetry for the eyes and heart. He is the most terrifyingly beautiful guy I have ever seen. And his scars have to tell a story ... — Jessica Sorensen

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? — Vincent Van Gogh

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. — Seth Godin

Forge your iron; shape it by force,
not into a flower you already know
but into what can also be a flower
if you think it is and it is so. — Joao Cabral De Melo Neto

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. — Laura Marling

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole

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. — Patti Smith

This is my life and lovestory listen losely and hold on tight this a roller coaster hell of a ride — Patrick Cruz

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme. — Robert Breault

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself. — Jenim Dibie

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry. — Van Cliburn

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God. — Thomas Merton

I am the eye that beholds ... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky ... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love. — Solange Nicole

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart — Alexander Pope

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo. — Czeslaw Milosz

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets. — Plato

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. — Cecil Day-Lewis

For though, in nature, depth and height
Are equally held infinite:
In poetry, the height we know;
'Tis only infinite below. — Jonathan Swift

Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity. — Subhan Zein

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. — Eugenio Montale

When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelings
are the only form of art which will remain to reign. — Soar

Some people say that poetry is a dying art but how can something that is dying breathe life into other art forms and make it new and vibrant. — Sandra Proto

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

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. — Anna Jameson

Writing and art are my lovers — Edna Stewart

And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a very complex art ... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols. — Ezra Pound

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery. — Marie-Antoine Careme

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. — George Eliot

I am the author of my Life and Lovestory,
I wrote it in poetry — Patrick Cruz

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. — Edmund Burke

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields. — Mason Cooley

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

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. — Douglas Brinkley

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

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. — Edith Wharton

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia. — Aristotle.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When I feel too much and the universe aches inside of me. — Christina Strigas

But thou art all my art, and dost advance
As high as learning my rude ignorance. — William Shakespeare

Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer. — Debasish Mridha

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. — Shahin Najafi

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. — Alan W. Watts

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. — Damien Hirst

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

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

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." — Denise Duhamel

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor. — Christopher Caudwell

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all. — John Ashbery

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment. — T. S. Eliot

If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true? — The Prolific Penman

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

Art is a reflection of poetry and beauty of the heart and mind without the use of any words. — Debasish Mridha

Resolve, and thou art free. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air
Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits
Will lift thee to the level of themselves. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, What man does with his aloneness. — Kenneth Rexroth

Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language. — Debasish Mridha

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski

For what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear? — Ouida

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one,
and starts a war in the soul of another. — Jenim Dibie

All beautiful distractions, ignites from you. — V.S. Atbay

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such. — Ron Silliman

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated — Frederick Sommer

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. — William Cowper

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go. — Criss Jami

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law,
The work of heaven and of the first cause. — Su Shi

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. — Michael Leunig

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. — Paul Valery

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. — Richard Dawkins

LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about. — A.E. Samaan