Art Quote by Percy Shelley

“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”

— Dana Gioia

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

“Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

“ART CREATION IS THE DOCUMENTATION OF THE SOUL'S VOICE”

— Malkiese Paythress

I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that…

— Morgan Llywelyn

“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Poetry is language playing with itself.”

— Harryette Mullen

“Poetry is the language of the soul; Poetic Prose, the language of my heart. Each line must flow as in a song, and strike…

— Lori R. Lopez

“Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry.”

— Nick Hornby

“After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he experienced the…

— Boris Pasternak