“And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.” WayYearsSometimesHelpingHappensLastsPassionLiteratureParticularPoetGreat Passion Author:Norman MacCaig
“And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.” ThinkingWayEyeLiteratureNamesParticularPoetPagesBoringDrySpeakers Author:Norman MacCaig
“One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.” KnowsWayChildrenDoeArtistLiteratureWonderKnow HowAlivePoetBlessedSense Of Wonder Author:Ella Maillart
“I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the art world and not the other way around. Artists and other people of intelligence have the power to bring deeper content to our culture.” PeopleWorldWayMindBelieveArtImportantArtistCultureI BelievePoetDeeperPainterDancerEtcArt World Author:Thornton Willis
“Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.” WayWantedPoetPhilosopherLiarsPlatoUtopia Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.” WayWritingSchoolArtistLanguageMovementPaintingPoetNovelistsIrritatingAppreciativeAllegory Author:A. S. Byatt