Home / Quotes / Quote by Germaine Greer

Quote by Germaine Greer

“Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.”

Quote by Germaine Greer

Book:Slip-shod sibyls: recognition, rejection and the woman poet

Work

Slip-shod sibyls: recognition, rejection and the woman poet

This book delves into the challenges and experiences faced by women poets, examining how they are recognized or rejected within the literary community. more

Author

Germaine Greer, born on January 29, 1939, is a British journalist, writer, and scholar renowned for her profound insights into feminism and gender issues. Her seminal work, 'The Female Eunuch,' has had a significant impact on the feminist movement. Greer's contributions have sparked widespread discussions and debates on women's status and gender equality. more

You May Also Like

“The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.”

World Giving Art Soul Jobs Poetry Force Position Objects Poet Habit Dues Strikes Invisible Visible Tragic Unusual Glue

Author:Jean Cocteau

“The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.”

Art Poetry Turns Race Destiny Mankind Goes On Worthy Poetry Is Immense Console Time Goes On

Book:Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold

Source: Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold

“If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.”

Ifs Persons Art Poetry Happened Effects Disappear Collapse

Author:Paul Valery

“No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'.”

Art Poetry Accepting Unique Models Lows Ordinary Art Is Function Extraordinary Commonplace

Author:Rosalind E. Krauss

“Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.”

Way Humans Art Poetry Offers Highest Standards Operations Poetry Is Human Experience Concise Conveying

Book:On Grief And Reason: Essays

Source: On Grief And Reason: Essays

“The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Humans Art Poetry Certain Difficult Moral Awareness Art Is Function Primaries Efficient Deceiving

Author:W. H. Auden

“The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.”

Art Poetry Primaries Poetry Is Pigment

Book:Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts

Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts

“The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.”

Art Poetry Individual Myth Poetic Reign

Book:The Poetic Image

Source: The Poetic Image

“Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.”

Art Poetry Virtue Fruit Verses

Author:Paul Valery

“Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.”

Ifs Way May Littles Art Matter Poetry Style Poet Concerned

Book:Collected Poetry and Prose

Source: Collected Poetry and Prose