"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry"
- Georges Braque
About this Quote
This quote by Georges Braque speaks with the power of poetry to expose the fact of reality. He recommends that reality is frequently concealed from us, which it takes a special type of insight to uncover it. This insight is provided by poetry, which lights up reality in a way that other kinds of expression can not. Braque suggests that poetry has the power to reveal the beauty and complexity of truth, and to reveal us things that we might not have actually observed previously. He suggests that poetry can help us to get a much deeper understanding of the world around us, and to value the beauty of life. By utilizing poetry to shed light on truth, we can get a higher gratitude for the world and its complexities.
This quote is written / told by Georges Braque between May 13, 1882 and August 31, 1963. He/she was a famous Artist from France.
The author also have 6 other quotes.
"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"
"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going"
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"
