Color Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical…

— Audre Lorde

The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

— Keith Crown

“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write,…

— W. H. Auden

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

— Nicolas Poussin

Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

— Nicolas Poussin

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

— Matthew Collings

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he…

— W. H. Auden

Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's…

— Jane Hirshfield

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

— Jason Silva