Art

“She walks in beauty, like the night”

“I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.”

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

“The cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure.”

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”

“The cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

“Only when you are able to detach yourself completely from the film while making it, can you be objective.”

“The most important thing in a film is the script, the script, and the script.”

“The secret to film is that it's an illusion.”

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep.”

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.”

“A song is nothing more than a story set to music.”

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”

“The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.”

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

“A writer is in a sense a performer, but he is also a creator, and the performance is part of the creation.”

“The artist is the antenna of the race.”

“Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics.”

“The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively—because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.”

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”

“I'm not a huge fan of horror movies, but I love the idea of them.”

“The poet is the voice of the people.”