Art Quote by Jane Campion

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

— Jane Campion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be…

— Andrew Motion

Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism,…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

— Jane Campion

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift me above…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and…

— Jane Campion

I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power.…

— Zadie Smith

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

— Edward Abbey

“There is indeed a poetical attitude to be adopted towards all things, but all things are not fit subjects for poetry. Into the secure…

— Oscar Wilde

Everyone wants a perfect ending. But over the years Ive learned that some of the best poems dont rhyme, and many great stories dont…

— Ritu Ghatourey

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live…

— Matthew Zapruder