Art Quote by Martin Heidegger

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

— William Hazlitt

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

— Andre Dubus

“It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

— Samuel Johnson

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we…

— Czeslaw Milosz

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels…

— Thomas Carlyle

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

— Owen Barfield

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

— Federico Fellini

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

— Adam Zagajewski

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone…

— Alexander Gordon Smith