Art Quote by Martin Heidegger

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into…

— Francis Beauchesne Thornton

“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.”

— Alok Mishra

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“this lightness is something created in the writing, using the linguistic tools of the poet, independent of whatever philosophical doctrine the poet claims to…

— Italo Calvino

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

“The heart contains passion but the imagination alone contains poetry,’ says Charles Baudelaire. This too was the lesson that Theophile Gautier, most subtle of…

— Oscar Wilde

“Poetry is the most potent of all literary forms. If prose is candle light, poetry is dawn.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I don't analyze beautiful. I sit in its presence and love the wholeness of it--the sweet and sad and raw and bright together. Poetry…

— Jacob Nordby

“The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see…

— T.S. Eliot

“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.”

— Horace

“Poetry, is a life long war waged against ineffable beauty.”

— Atticus Poetry