Monday, December 7, 2009

Listen to the poet, read the painter.

"A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves." -Aphra Behn

1 comment:

  1. "But my dear Degas, poems are made of words, not ideas." Mallarme in "Why I am Not a Painter."

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