Art Quote by Archibald MacLeish

While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there…

— Aberjhani

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

“Maybe it's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

“It's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos"- Weston Michel”

— Rachel Van Dyken

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

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

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

— William Cowper

If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements…

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

— W. H. Auden

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of…

— e. e. cummings

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

— David Whyte

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to…

— David Whyte

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

— Diane Wakoski

In times of crisis the artist must rise to the challenge and try to make sense from the chaos.

— Shabana Azmi

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

— Anselm Kiefer