Art Quote by Atalina Wright

“Poetry may appear to be just words, but it is an extension of our lives. It is the music of life and for us…

— Abdul Milazi

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.”

— William Everson

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we…

— Tracy K. Smith

“Poetry is the icon-stasis on which a desire for aesthetic ecstasy illustrates itself endlessly.”

— the mag man

“At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue…

— Muriel Barbery

“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.”

— Major Jackson

“Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.”

— Pietros Maneos

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz

“What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak from the…

— Anonymous