Ability Quote by James Allen Hall

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

— Anonymous

Art is the absence of fear.

— Erykah Badu

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,

— Robert Genn

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need…

— John Cage

Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any…

— Pablo Picasso

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

— Nazanin Boniadi

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

— Duke Ellington

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

— Boris Pasternak

“The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see…

— T.S. Eliot

“Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth…

— Czesław Miłosz

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