Painter Quote by Anne Stevenson Download Open image “I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.” — Anne Stevenson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painter Painting Poet Poetry Should Thinking
Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making. — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill… — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
