Alekhine Quote by Max Euwe

“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world. She knew, too, that he was…

— Leo Tolstoy

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration…

— Jacques Maritain

“The real artist with no tear in his eye and no sadness in his heart, puts the pages in the fire and does it…

— Harry Crews

“What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak from the…

— Anonymous

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing…

— Bernard Berenson

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul…

— Aphra Behn

“If you fail in copying from a master you succeed in birthing an original art. Kushal Poddar, Poet”

— Kushal Poddar, Poet

“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And…

— T S Eliot

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

— Anne Sexton

When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them -…

— William Carlos Williams