“One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.” WellsDoeMadeSaidTwoRealityLanguageCommonWrittenObjectsPoetPerspectiveReaderHonorDemandUniqueSignificantTwo ThingsValidityPoetry By Famous PoetsUnique Perspective Author:W. H. Auden
“Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.” KindFactsLightPoetryEmotionObjectsParticularColorPoetLandscapeSensations Book:Poems Source: Poems
“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.” WorldGivingArtSoulJobsPoetryForcePositionObjectsPoetHabitDuesStrikesInvisibleVisibleTragicUnusualGlue Author:Jean Cocteau
“Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldLongUseLyingPoetryParentKnow HowLove YouObjectsPoetAdultsGuiltyInstantPoeticSpheresConcreteTime Of NeedStepchildStepchildrenNew Family Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.” GivingReasonFactsHappensTruthPoetryHistoryHappenedObjectsParticularSeriousPoetPoetry Is Book:The poetics Source: The poetics
“As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.” KnowsWellsReasonPoetrySpeakHealingBeautyGraceObjectsPoetOughtMathematicsMedicineProofMedicalMathematicalPoetry IsMathematical Beauty Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.” MenWantChildrenPoetryObjectsPoet Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual.” FirstsBelieveLongIndividualImagineObjectsPoetTalesLong AgoProphecyRemembrance Author:Soren Kierkegaard