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“For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.”

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John Kinsella is a contemporary Australian poet known for his distinctive style and profound depiction of rural life. His work blends local color with universal themes, exploring the relationships between humans and nature, history, and memory. more

“Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader read three kinds of pattern at once; code moves the reader from a static to an active, interactive and looped domain; while algebraic topology allows us to read qualitative forms and their transformations.”

Writing Kind Moving Form Poetry Three Literature Written Reader Transformation Mathematics Silent Patterns Active Code Domain Static Interactive Qualitative Topology

Author:Stephanie Strickland

“Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We should perhaps speak instead about their opacity, given that we cannot see through them to the machine.”

Should Poetry Literature Speak Given Effects Machines Transparent Interfaces

Author:Stephanie Strickland

“It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.”

Self Poetry Purpose Literature Language Challenges Roles Environment Reflection Machines Definitions Artistic Programming Introducing Self Reflection Programming Languages Multiplicity Coders

Author:Stephanie Strickland

“In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.”

Firsts Art Stills Hands Poetry Literature Depends Periods Capable Response Appreciation Genuine Judgement Minorities Discerning Endorsing

Author:F. R. Leavis

“This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader; and in doing so they turn language against its own project of conceptual division, and use it to heal itself - and in the process - paradoxically - to articulate new concepts that it can't yet accommodate.”

Giving Use Poetry Turns Reading Literature Language Process Practice Poet Reader Projects Concepts Capacity Heal Division Accommodate Heal Itself

Author:Don Paterson

“Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in the sets of their attributes. ... Contrary to the assertions of Lakoff and some of the cognitive metaphor theorists, people can read through to an underlying mapping, but only when the surface metaphor is new to them.”

People Two Ideas Poetry Literature Share Metaphor Surface Contrary Attributes Our Thoughts Domain Assertion Cognitive Theorists Mapping

Author:Don Paterson

“I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.”

Feels Has Beens Said Book Lasts Poetry Literature Careers Stage Could Have Been

Book:Literary Occasions: Essays

Source: Literary Occasions: Essays

“In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.”

Poetry Literature Doubt Casts Discourse Doubted

Author:Mikhail Bakhtin

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