Art Quote by Gerald Stern

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

— Mary Oliver

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

— James Laughlin

An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them.

— Ruth Asawa

I just want to be fully challenged as an artist, so that anyone who looks like me, who relates to me, says, 'Oh, if…

— Danielle Brooks

“In the hierarchy, the artist faces outward. Meeting someone new he asks himself, What can this person do for me? How can this person…

— Steven Pressfield

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

“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)”

— Pierre Reverdy

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish…

— Anita Diament

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to…

— Susan Glaspell