Ability Quote by Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

— Eugenio Montale

Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and…

— Paul Gauguin

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many…

— Plato

I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and…

— Jacqueline Woodson

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly…

— Carolyn Kizer

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually…

— Marge Piercy

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

— Anonymous

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound