Picture Poet Quotes

#1. All at Once Is What Eternity Is.

Kenneth Patchen

#2. Let's go." Jamie's hand was firm on my arm, and I made no protest. Following Jared, guarded by the sailors, we stole away from the quay, surreptitious as though we had started the fire.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

William H. Hunt

#4. There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

William Kingdon Clifford

#5. Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card

Max Euwe

#6. You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

Dolly Parton

#7. I quite like that jeopardy, those up-against-the-wall odds. I don't like it when it's over-comfortable, too easy, something that can be done in two or three weeks. I like a challenge.

Gordon Ramsay

#8. Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.

Andre Malraux

#9. I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Jon McGregor

#10. You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Malcolm X

#11. They say that history is going on somewhere.
They say it won't stop. I have held
One picture still for a long time and waited.

William Stafford

#12. I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.

Mitch Albom

#13. I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.

Jennifer Johnston

#14. Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Les Brown

#15. Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Helen Hayes

#16. Vergil preferred to give a few touches, and to allow the imagination of his readers to fill out the picture: that is one reason for his almost universal appeal. He changes each of his readers into a poet or an artist.

Gilbert Highet

#17. Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture.

Andrea L'Artiste

#18. I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

Michael Haneke