The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
John RuskinIt is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.
John RuskinArchitecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
John Ruskin