Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

— Horace

“What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak from the…

— Anonymous

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

— William Cowper

“Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit…

— Harley King

It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.”

— Wallace Stegner

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by…

— William Faulkner

“Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven…

— Iain Crichton Smith

“In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orifices there is something, and this something is called…

— Bashō Matsuo

That's a fairly Wordsworthian way to look at things! But yeah, actually - part of the poet's work, I think, is to maintain or…

— Shane McCrae

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is…

— Wallace Stevens