Art Quote by Melody Lee

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

— Atticus Poetry

“I always thought that if I suffered enough in service of Art, if I laid down my life to please the world, I could…

— Amelia Gray

“We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems. We have…

— Jeremiah Walton

“Poetry: a weapon to articulate the world the way I see it.~”

— Niki Herd

“So build yourself as beautiful as you want your world to be. Wrap yourself in light then give yourself away with your heart, your…

— Andrea Gibson

“And I feared that death picks up where life left off. An endless barrage of unbearable obstacles. A godforsaken terrain where lost souls find…

— Lydia Lunch

“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.”

— Aisha Mirza

“Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from – hatred,…

— Terry Pratchett

“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.”

— Alfred Jarry

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

“At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue…

— Muriel Barbery