“I am very driven when it comes to poetry, a complete obsessive of the truth be told.”
Poetry Quotes
in his letter, 15 February 1889, (L. 911); as cited in Steven Z. Levine, Claude Monet (1994), Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self. p. 93
1870 - 1890
“I am very driven when it comes to poetry, a complete obsessive of the truth be told.”
Poetry Quotes
1880s, Reminiscences (1881)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 135.
Source: The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941
Source: posthumous, Movements in art since 1945, p. 15: (in Gorky Memorial Exhibition, Schwabacher pp. 12)
Charlotte Brontë, on Modern Painters, Vol. 1 (1843), by John Ruskin. Letter to W. S. Williams (31 July 1848) The Letters of Charlotte Brontë