Art Quote by Eugenio Montale

Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's…

— Jane Hirshfield

Art is really more musical than it is visual.

— Denny Laine

I think poetry bridges text and image. Poetry is visual in its imagery - but it requires close attention to words themselves. Words become…

— Allegra Goodman

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

— W. H. Auden

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are…

— Denise Duhamel

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to…

— Kenneth Clark

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

— Sonia Orwell

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies…

— W.S. Merwin