Art Quote by Helen Bevington

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom

“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

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

— Georges Simenon

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet…

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge,…

— Guy Davenport

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

— Honore de Balzac

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia