Art Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

— Jose Marti

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

— Jane Hirshfield

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation…

— John Keats

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

— Nathalie Sarraute

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation…

— John Keats

“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music, into something…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners…

— Christopher Logue

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets…

— Criss Jami

Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so many poets…

— Sarah Kay

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the…

— Joseph Brodsky

“I don't myself think much of science as a phase of human development. It has given us a lot of ingenious toys; they take…

— Willa Cather