Hannah Arendt Quotes

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

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

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

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.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

Poetry keeps longing alive.

Poetry is language in orbit.

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.