Wyndham Lewis Quotes

Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.

I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.