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“There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies. And mythical tigresses look at you with fiery golden eyes... open your heart and feel the colors of magic blooming inside you.”

Feels Looks Heart Eye Song Grows Wonderful Magic Tree Color Poet Flower Golden Butterfly Fiery Blooming Open Your Heart Wonderful Places Golden Eye Tigress

Author:Laurel Burch

“In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.”

Way Has Beens Important Walks Teach Seeing Color Poet Shapes Harmony Woods Painter Faculty Museums Walk In The Woods

Author:Carolyn Kizer

“Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.”

Men Feels Feelings Action Order Color Poet Judging Former Posts Latter Yield Exes Lively

Author:Honore de Balzac

“But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.”

Use Color Poet Seeds Gardening Gardener

Book:The Garden

Source: The Garden

“Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.”

Kind Facts Light Poetry Emotion Objects Particular Color Poet Landscape Sensations

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.”

Knows Littles Persons Country Done Difficult Consciousness Color Poet Pride Proud Excellent Superiority

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.”

Self Poetry Time Sound Lord Color Poet Perception Versions Weather Block Sovereign Fragrance

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.”

Needs May Found Strong Color Poet Vices Comic Features Employed Avarice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.”

Made Form Poetry Language Black White Movement Color Poet Red Blue Green Senses Rhythm Poetic Flattered Vowels Consonants

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.”

Years Beautiful Generations Color Poet Flower Goes On Scientist Available Billions Breeding Pollen

Author:George M. Church

“Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.”

World Ideas Force Social Watches Saws Heard Objects Taught Color Poet Theory Birth Blind Intuition Excellent Visuals Professors Spheres Gifted Lectures Accuracy

Author:Thomas Hardy