Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

— Bennie Wallace

A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science…

— Claude Bernard

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

— William Cowper

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't…

— Matthea Harvey

“If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be:…

— Thomas Love Peacock

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I…

— Jack Bowman

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property…

— Robert Pinsky

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.

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music -…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“Poetry is not a lost art. Poetry is better than ever. Of course you’ve got the usual gang of idiots (as the Mad magazine…

— Stephen King

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

— Charles Bukowski

It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract.…

— Ernest Fenollosa

The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting,…

— Robert Graves

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

— Edward Hirsch