Activism Quote by Lepota L. Cosmo

“Poetry is the icon-stasis on which a desire for aesthetic ecstasy illustrates itself endlessly.”

— the mag man

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature of people…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the…

— Walter Pater

“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.”

— William Everson

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte

Music gives the inspiring, yet intangible beauty, a path of expression, a voice.

— Ellis Hadlock

“Wherever one looks in the realms of creative endeavor, one finds the greatest architecture, music, art, sculpture, drama, ritual placed in the service of…

— Gordon B. McKeeman

“The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.”

— J.S. Bach

“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that…

— William T. Vollmann

Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect…

— William Carlos Williams

“When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelings are the only form of art which will remain to reign.…

— Soar Soaring-Words.com

“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he…

— Mircea Eliade