Brushes Quote by Yang Wanli

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

— Joy Harjo

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not…

— Anonymous

“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write,…

— W. H. Auden

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith

“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

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I…

— Sylvia Plath

Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the…

— William Baziotes

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace