Art Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of…

— Jane Austen

“She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to…

— Jane Austen

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

“In the busyness of living, he is the kind of man that makes a woman pause and write romantic poetry.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a…

— T.S.Eliot

“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.”

— Shira Wolosky

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any relationship that…

— Robert Graves

“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of…

— Virginia Woolf

“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.”

— Walter Isaacson