Art Quote by Aristotle

“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of…

— Campbell McGrath

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because…

— Herbert Spencer

“A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions.  A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is a whole…

— George Orwell

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.

— Anne Waldman

The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the…

— Jacques Derrida

“A poet expresses with a few words, what a philosopher means with many.”

— Stephen McDonough

“Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.”

— Mohit.K.Misra

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

— W. H. Auden

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

— W. H. Auden