H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

A picture is a poem without words.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.

I definitely think the best songs are written when you feel something strongly.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

Art never comes from happiness.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

I love art. It is uplifting.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.