“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.”

“Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal.”

“To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.”

“To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.”

“As poets we do not ask permission before we begin to practise, for there is no authority to license us. We do not inquire whether it is still possible to pen a drama, for the answer to that question is ours alone to give. It is our drama, spoken or sung, that asserts our right to the title of poet. It is our decision that counts, and not the opinion of some theatre management, or the ponderings of the critic, or even the advice of our friendliest mentors.”

“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”

“It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium like radio or TV.”

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“Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven.”

“In this consists the difference between painting and poetry : the painter reproduces others, — the poet reproduces himself.”