Art Quote by Gerald Stern Download Open image “Some poems are art because of their passion.” — Gerald Stern ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Passion Poetry
Poetry is protesting against the nature of suffering and mistreatment. Art is the expression of binding your soul and universe together in the flow… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art,… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“I am going to carry my bed into New York City tonight complete with dangling sheets and ripped blankets; I am going to push… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I've been trying to come to terms with what I am and what I do and what I believe in. And I see that I'm not happy with - well, it's almost as if being a poet is not enough for me. It's too late for me to do more now. I did what I could in a small way.… — Gerald Stern Copy Share
“I think it's in Malone Dies that Beckett's creature is in a kind of prison or hospital. As I recall, he is visited twice a day, slop brought in and slop taken out. He has a stub of a pencil, a bit of paper. And he asks questions, ten, sven, I don't remember, "Why am I here?" "What day is… — Gerald Stern Copy Share
I've changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems - believe it or not -… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe it has… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
