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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art,
and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.


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FRANZ GRILLPARZER Personality is everything in art and poetry.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Personality is everything in art and poetry.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE looking in the rear-view mirror.
STEVEN COOPER Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.
MRS. ANNA JAMESON Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Seduction is an art that is tested in the mirror
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DIANA OSSANA Art is a mirror for the sub-conscious.
TYLER J. HEBERT Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
WILLIAM COWPER Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
DORIS LESSING We're looking into a mirror of godliness.
MATTHEW TROPP Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
LAUREN BACALL Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror
BERT MCCOY Believing in the ego is like believing that you are the one in the mirror instead of the one looking...
JACK TYME Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach...
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach...
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN It is time for each of us to stop looking out the window and start looking in the mirror.
JOSEPH CALIFANO I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.
HEATHER MORRIS Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.
RUPI KAUR Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
JORGE LUIS BORGES Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
GEORGE ELIOT Looking in the mirror is the most important thing. Am I looking to plan for retirement, or am I look...
DAN BURKE Art is a mirror of our society and one of its powers.
PIERRE MARC DESJARDINS The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
LAUREN BACALL Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.
IRVINE WELSH Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirro...
MARJORIE ROSEN Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope
SOURCE UNKNOWN When God looks in the mirror He sees love.
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ROBERT PINSKY What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
ARNOLD PALMER Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
J. G. STEDMAN Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
CAPTAIN J. G. STEDMAN Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
MARIANNE MOORE In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
EDMUND BURKE Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing
EDMUND BURKE Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like dri...
HERB BRODY If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.
BETHANY JANE ANDREWS HOEY To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodime...
JOSEPH BRODSKY Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of di...
ASGHAR FARHADI I can't bear looking in the mirror-I guess that's why my hair looks like this.
LANCE BASS Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
COLIN FIRTH Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discrimin...
WALTER PATER The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirro...
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CHRISTOPHER LASCH Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...
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LUCY GREALY The stormy March has come at last,
With wind, and cloud, and changing skies;
I hear the rush...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Thou blossom bright with autumn dew,
And colored with the heaven's own blue. . . .
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GARY MATHEWS Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more sea...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with whichto shape it.
BERTOLT BRECHT In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by econom...
AMY WHITAKER Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
W.S. MERWIN Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that ...
SARAH KAY Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd ...
EDDIE IZZARD She's very authentic. She's involved in opera and she sees it for what it is, looking at all aspects...
KATHY HOTCHNER Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
EUGENIO MONTALE Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, a...
ANNA JAMESON Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for har...
HORACE WALPOLE I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the gre...
IGGY POP They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murde...
SIDNEY SHELDON This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
TERRY PRATCHETT I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.
JO BRAND If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that bot...
SUSAN VREELAND I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror...
ABBEY CLANCY The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's mov...
DAN QUINN Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite t...
WILLIAM C. BRYANT Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite t...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
P...
KAMAND KOJOURI I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.
LANCE BASS I don't know if you've noticed, but our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking at itself in the ...
LEWIS BLACK You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You wanna know how to turn yourself into a better person,then, instead of looking outside the window...
INDY BISSESSUR I do not trust the truth. It shifts into reality.
CHRISTINA STRIGAS I decided to spend my energy doing this. I think we need to be looking ahead. We don't need to be lo...
BARRY BREEN Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and...
ABERJHANI Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just n...
DENNIS FARINA ...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
VINCENT VAN GOGH I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the...
CHERIE LUNGHI I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the...
MICHAEL LEWIS If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.
GENE CERNAN Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
EZRA POUND Love, Life, Art, Religion, Poetry- All these things are subjective. Subjective to our own beautiful ...
CHARLIE JAMES Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. May...
DOROTHY STRATTEN Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil a...
EUGENIO MONTALE When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and p...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

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