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One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880Letters to Madame Louise Colet, 12 August 1846
One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880Letters to Madame Louise Colet, 22 October 1846
- Clever Jabs
Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880Madame Bovary (1857), Part II, Chapter TwelveIn context
- Music
- Talking
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. Forster1879–1970Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster1879–1970Two Cheers for Democracy (1951), “Anonymity: An Enquiry”
- Poetry
- Truth & Lies
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Room with a View (1908), Part One, Chapter IIIIn context
- Music
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France1844–1924Le Jardin d’Épicure [The Garden of Epicurus] (1894)
- Love
I’m gay in my art and straight in my life.
James Francoborn 1978fourtwonine magazine Interview (2015)
- Sex
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost1874–1963
- Poetry
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost1874–1963The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
- Poetry
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost1874–1963
- Poetry
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost1874–1963Letter to Louis Untermeyer (January 1, 1916)
- Poetry
Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in.
Robert Frost1874–1963Interview with with Harvey Breit of The New York Times Book Review. As quoted in the following source: Associated Press (30 January 1963). “Robert Frost Dies at 88
- Poetry
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost1874–1963
- Poetry
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost1874–1963
- Poetry