“Poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.”
Creativity Quotes · Page 7
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“Music is the deepest of the arts and deep beneath the arts.”
“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.”
“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you!”
“Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.”
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
“Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”
“A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.”
“It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.”
“It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.”
“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”
“What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.”
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”