Aristotle Quote by Nicholas Jarecki

Weirdly, it's much easier to write a poem than a film.

— Tim Key

“What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem?”

— Francesca Lia Block

Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the white spaces…

— Jim Jarmusch

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

— Luis Bunuel

Film has its own innate poetry.

— John Hillcoat

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

— Kenneth Rexroth

Some directors are like poets.

— Manisha Koirala

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie…

— Francesco Clemente

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

— William Cowper

For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a…

— Peter Greenaway

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

— Jorge Luis Borges