#poe

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart ↗

— Alexander Pope

#poetry #art

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#power-of-words #art

Not all that have fallen are vanquished. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#heaven #hope #inspirational #jrr-tolkien #life-lessons

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#art

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives. ↗

— Aberjhani

#cultural-arts #famous-poets #humanity #jazz #jazz-appreciation-month

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. ↗

— Joan Miro

#colors #i #like #music #notes

Art too is just a way of living. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#art

What a comfort to know that God is a poet. ↗

— Rachel Held Evans

#christianity #god #poetry #art

After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin. Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved. ↗

— Piet Hein

#einstein #inventor #poet #art

The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you? ↗

— Brion Gysin

#brion-gysin #cut-ups-self-explained #poetry #art