Ideas Quote by Francesco Clemente

I've always had an overwhelming desire to express a particular set of ideas. As a musician, I'm always working with different people who can…

— Tycho

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie…

— Francesco Clemente

Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human…

— Francesco Clemente

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

— John B. S. Haldane

It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written…

— James Elroy Flecker

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

— Ezra Pound

“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry. Without those,…

— Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

— Karl Shapiro

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

— William Wordsworth

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

— Horace

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would…

— Michael Chabon

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

— Aberjhani