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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

sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me. — Sanober Khan

The only way to find art is to lose touch with reality. — Christina Strigas

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

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.. — Dan Sperber

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves. — Victor Hugo

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

Poetry is a totally different art than film. — Stan Brakhage

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system. — Tony Harrison

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain — Steve Chalke

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

Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry. — Nick Hornby

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

Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom. — Michele Brenton

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language. — Laurence Overmire

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat. — Michael Oakeshott

Dancing is very like poetry. — Martha Graham

Poetry is what you can't translate. Art is what you can't define. Film is what you can't explain. But we're going to try, anyway. — James Monaco

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

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. — Laura Riding

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

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts. — Robert Pinsky

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

Well," said Madame Morrible in a carrying tone, "one expects poetry, if it is Poetry, to offend. It is the Right of Art. — Gregory Maguire

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. — Erik Satie

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

In the corner of the painting of success
the signature is blurred — Kelli Russell Agodon

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

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting. — Ahdaf Soueif

Art too is just a way of living. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

Poetry is the scholar's art. — Wallace Stevens

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

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

In practicing the art of confusion, there is no better weapon than poetry. — Susan Hubbard

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. — T. S. Eliot

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. — Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is more than just art, it's like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a little dark. — Delano Johnson

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. — Thomas Hardy

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. — Sonia Sanchez

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art - a euphemism - tamed wilderness. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language. — Carl Sandburg

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

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. — Seamus Heaney

My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc. — Andrei Tarkovsky

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. — Robert Pinsky

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning. — Paul Valery

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

A poet is someone whose words can grasp & pull the thread of a person's soul & make them unravel with delight. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

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

Poetry is an art of economy. — Matthew Shenoda

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

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance. — Wallace Stevens

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. — Marianne Moore

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent. — Roman Jakobson

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

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — W. H. Auden

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

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act. — Don Paterson

LIFE IS NEVER OVER. — Amy King

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry. — Philip Yancey

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

The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art. — Cesar Vallejo

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound

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

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation. — Joseph Brodsky

Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry. — Vicente Aleixandre

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. — Samuel Johnson

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty. — Dejan Stojanovic

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them. — Octavio Paz

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

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

What a comfort to know that God is a poet. — Rachel Held Evans

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. — Archibald MacLeish

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

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

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it. — Diane Wakoski

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her. — Jenim Dibie

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE. — Ezra Pound

The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless. — A.E. Samaan

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

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

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye ... — Emily Dickinson

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

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. — David Biespiel

History after all is the true poetry. — Thomas Carlyle

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro

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

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe. — Ernst Haas

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade. — John Dryden