“The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.” –James Lafferty

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In my frame of mind
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. —Francis Bacon

A picture is a poem without words. —Horace

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. —John Ruskin

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. —Octavio Paz

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. —Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language’s own means. —Joseph Brodsky

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. —T. S. Eliot

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. —Samuel Johnson

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. —Robert Frost

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. —Lord Byron

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. —Charlotte Bronte

The soul never thinks without a picture. —Aristotle