"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."

Art, Imagination, Poetry, Thought

35

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Art quotes

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Art, Limitations, Thinking

"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Art, History

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Art, Husband, Job

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Art, Poetry, Love, Emotion, Expression

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

Art, Truth

"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Healing, Comfort, Emotion

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Art, Being, Modernity

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Art, Play, Success, Audience, Failure

"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Music, Experience, Truth, Life

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Art, Communication, Expression, Understanding

Explore more quotes by William C. Bryant

"There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by."

Nature

"Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings."

Nature

"The groves were God's first temples."

God

"The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within."

Nature

"Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place."

Winning

"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."

Pain

"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."

Cause

35

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Art quotes

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"History develops, art stands still."

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

"Music heals all forms of misery."

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

Explore more quotes by William C. Bryant

"A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty."

"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."

"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."

"There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by."

"Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings."

"The groves were God's first temples."

"The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within."

"Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place."

"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."

"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."