“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.”
More from Carl Sandburg on Art
“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”
“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”
“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.”
“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.”
“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.”
Others on Art
Picasso
18 quotes“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
Vincent van Gogh
13 quotes“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Michelangelo
12 quotes“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
John Keats
10 quotes“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
Susan Sontag
10 quotes“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.”
Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
Wallace Stevens
8 quotes“Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peop...”
Percy Shelley
8 quotes“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
Beethoven
8 quotes“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
John Ruskin
7 quotes“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful...”
Ezra Pound
7 quotes“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”
Marshall McLuhan
7 quotes“Art is anything you can get away with.”