Art Quote by Gary Reilly

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the…

— William Faulkner

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

— Ayi Kwei Armah

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got…

— Ray Bradbury

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

— Russell Simmons

“Yes, I know what you mean about writing and writers. We seem to have lost the target. Writers seem to write to be known…

— Charles Bukowski

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...

— Eric Maisel

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an…

— Christian Keiber

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each book, since…

— Matthea Harvey

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

— Marcel Proust

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

— Robert McKee

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

— Cecil Taylor