Poetry Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

“perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Maria Tallchief

“Poetry should forever be becoming and never perfected.”

— Friedrich Schlegel

“Absolute perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing to add, but nothing to take away.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

“His is a poetry devoid of any poetry.”

— Pietros Maneos

“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

— Michelle Geaney

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

“Perfection is only achieved when there is nothing more that can be taken away rather then when there are things that can be added”

— Antoine De Saint Exupery

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present…

— Robert E. Howard