Form Quote by Paul Gauguin

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

— Joan Miro

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

— Plutarch

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

— Joseph Brodsky

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or…

— Jacques Maritain

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies…

— W.S. Merwin

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

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

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound