Ancient Quote by William Blake

“These days many poets live in cities, or at least in suburbs, and the natural world grows ever more distant from our everyday lives.…

— Mary Oliver

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is…

— Northrop Frye

You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

— Mary Oliver

“We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe…

— David Livingstone Smith

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

— Joseph Campbell

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

— Karl Jaspers

“There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a…

— Jorge Luis Borges