The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.