Belonging Quote by William H. Hunt

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with…

— Freya Stark

“And, as in the case of sensible images, if the artist look without distraction upon the archetypal form, not distracted by sight of anything…

— Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

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

— Anne Sexton

“Epilogue Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? I…

— Robert Lowell

“A photograph is a poem without words”

— Holace

Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no…

— Maurice Sendak

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

— Helen Hayes

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

— Marshall McLuhan

“The celebrated opening image of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is another case in point: Let us go then, you and I,…

— Terry Eagleton

“Art altogether is nothing but a survival skill, we should never lose sight of this fact, it is, time and again, just an attempt…

— Thomas Bernhard

“The pictures are bound to mutilate the words. Those words weren't meant to have pictures with them!”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

— Shirin Neshat