Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else. — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.” — Carol Hovsepian Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion… — William H. Hunt Copy Share Image
