Vanna Bonta Quotes

Well-written words are music.

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.