Facts Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

— Leonardo da Vinci

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.

— Pattiann Rogers

Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human…

— Francesco Clemente

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting

— Edmund Burke

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

— Mary Karr

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

— Virginia Woolf

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

— Joan Miro

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other…

— David Elliott

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies…

— W.S. Merwin

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

— Plutarch

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

— Joseph Brodsky

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and…

— Tracy K. Smith