Art Quote by Thomas Harrison

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a…

— Wallace Stegner

... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large…

— Lipman Bers

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear…

— Jean-Claude Izzo

Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as…

— Arthur Ransome

Kisses like poetry, like writing sonnets, quatrains, cinquains free verse desire Kisses like ballads, your tongue on the roof of my mouth. Tell me…

— Azra T

To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting…

— Amir Sulaiman

I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people talking to…

— Miller Williams

Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories.…

— Charles Bukowski

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

— W. H. Auden

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

— Karen Armstrong

“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.”

— Colleen Hoover

Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the…

— John Lanchester