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“The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.”

Trying Artist Culture Term Christianity Effects Poet Creating Avant Garde Creating Something

Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.”

Thinking Humans Artist Universe Consciousness Poet Creating Rewriting Human Thought

Author:Steve Jobs

“States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.”

Soul States Moments Inspiration Literature Force Forever Poet Pure Creating Genuine

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.”

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Author:Amy Lowell

“Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.”

Ifs Reality Imagination Space Secret Cities Cutting New York Poet Creating Tradition Myth Disappear London Paris Rome Sail Floats Moscow Leningrad

Author:Nina Berberova

“...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.”

Poet Creating Restoring

Book:Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning

Source: Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning

“That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.”

Knows Character Stories Order Fiction Know How Poet Creating Structure Developing Narrative Fiction Writers Narrative Structure

Author:Edward Hirsch

“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.”

Men Said Humor Poet Creating Performances Blind Ridiculous Driving Reasonable Sense Of Humor Craving Posture Sinister

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.”

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Author:Niels Bohr