Casts Quote by Pierre Coupey

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work…

— Howard Nemerov

“Poetry is a sound, asking the shadow to dance”

— Jana Ghossein

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose…

— Sue Halpern

These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point /…

— Kenji Miyazawa

other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

“In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as the progression…

— Frank L. DeSilva

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley