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“Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.”

Ifs Littles Beautiful Poet Mere Clouds Liars Makers Humankind Wiser Elegant Visionaries Madmen Perplexity Falsity Unknowing

Book:Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad

Source: Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad

“A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.”

Littles Doe Poetry Pleasure Clear Poet Approach Bottom Dare Determined Remove Veils Trifles Mariners

Author:E. B. White

“Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.”

Humans Littles Real Moments Helping Bits Human Beings Painting Poet Speech Little Bit Extremes Real Life Retreat Pain In Life

Author:Francesco Clemente

“Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!”

Source: Questa è la mia lettera al mondo: poesie

“Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.”

Way Littles Different Speak One Thing Poet Speech Different Ways Songwriters Little Time

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.”

Men Littles Poet Comfort

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs