Verbal Art Quotes

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what I do is somewhere on the line between speaking to you as I am now and actual song. And the things I love when I say one of those poems to myself - it's a little bit like singing, it's a little bit like speaking.

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.

There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

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

My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Every language has its own music.

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.