“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.” MenTwoMatterTurnsLeftPartyIssuesSubjectsEffectsPoetAspectFortuneDisappointmentVariousVersionsConsiderationPlumber Author:Thomas Frank
“It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.” WarPurposeWishModernEventsParticularPoetAspectUniversalWarfareModern Warfare Author:Herbert Read
“From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.” KnowsReadingLiteratureAnswersFiguresPoetAspectMythAmerican Poetry Author:Diane Wakoski
“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.” MayTwoEyePoetryImaginationCommonNumbersCreativityCreationPoetBirthExerciseAspectIdealsFunctionAddAll TimeMotivePoeticImaginativeUncommon Author:Walter Pater
“To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.” StillsRealitySpiritArtistConsciousnessModernPoetMaterialsDegreesMusicianAspectEnvironmentalBoundsIncludingIntimateMagnificentCommunionMechanicStewardship Author:Leonardo Boff
“I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resulting from this union will not be the random conclusion of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of the same thought.” ThinkingTwoDreamPoetMusicianAspectUnionsSeriesConclusionCollaborationHarmoniousConcessionsSynthesisApproximation Author:Arthur Honegger
“Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.” WorldHumansTodayAbleBeautifulSpiritualLanguageHuman BeingsSituationPoetAspectSpiritual LifeExistentialMysticalWorld TodayPersianPersian Poetry Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr