Imagery Quote by Cate Marvin

Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

— Anna Journey

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

— Donovan

I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how…

— Nan Goldin

My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that…

— James Welch

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take…

— Billy Collins

After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take…

— Patti Smith

My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can…

— John Constable

Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are…

— Anne Sexton

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of…

— Andy Goldsworthy

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily…

— William Shenstone

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

— Selima Hill

I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and…

— Barbara Hepworth