#poe

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#into #poem #pressed #rome #service

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#different #different angles #especially #good #iranian

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#art #delightfully #excite #imagination #manner

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. ↗

— George Farquhar

#poetry #sir

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. ↗

— Basil Bunting

#confusing #confusion #destructive #else #exhilaration

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own. ↗

— Basil Bunting

#common #jug #kind #listen #look

When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things. ↗

— Ken Burns

#because #begin #editing #elements #episode

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. ↗

— Lord Byron

#dress #eighty #hundred #man #new

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. ↗

— Simon Callow

#bleak #house #huge #just #most

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem. ↗

— Jane Campion

#different #film-makers #films #freedom #gives