Walter Mercado Quotes

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Poetry is fired by love.

There is no art without Eros.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

Art is an elastic sort of love.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.