Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to…

Quote by Emily Dickinson

Topics: Poetry Quotes

When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeiing, Chin to knee on...

When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeiing, Chin to knee on...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire...

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I...

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I...

The heart wants what it wants or else it does not care.

The heart wants what it wants or else it does not care.

Saying nothing...sometimes says the most.

Saying nothing...sometimes says the most.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie...True Poems...

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie...True Poems...

Nature is a haunted house..but Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

Nature is a haunted house..but Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard...

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard...

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There...

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There...

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we...

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we...

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek...

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek...

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in...

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in...

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains...

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains...

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art,...

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art,...

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior,...

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior,...

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly...

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly...

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a...

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a...

It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in...

It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in...

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others...

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others...