Failing Quote by Rene Magritte

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

— Samantha Morton

“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

— Simon Armitage

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

— Eugenio Montale

“How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing life? These…

— Joseph Campbell

I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested…

— Martha Ronk

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

— Anne Sexton

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image.

— Joachim Schmid

“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls.  These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means…

— Hans Hofmann

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr