"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks"

"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation"

"Money is a kind of poetry"

"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays"

"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs"

"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince"

"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired"

"Personality is everything in art and poetry"

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling"

"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice"

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular"