Art Quote by Harold Bloom

“Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the breath. Poetry…

— Ivan M. Granger

“Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death. The gift of art is a superior gift that allows…

— Ruben

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

“And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

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

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of…

— Zbigniew Herbert

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts