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“Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.”

Ifs Way Doe Eye Choices Understanding Failing Subjects Mankind Creation Painting Poet Ears Satisfaction Wide Painter

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.”

Source: Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]

“The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.”

Firsts Sometimes Eye Sound Lines Vision Poet Speech Ears Strikes Locals Rhythm His Eyes Farmers Verses Texture Frost Bleak Epigrams Hold Fast

Author:Michael Donaghy

“We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.”

Wells Kind May Able Poet Judging Goodness Ears Notion Excellent Poetic Veins Possessing Tolerable

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others. Thanks to this genre, writers of nonfiction can now use the tools of the reporter, the points of view and ear for dialog of a novelist, and the passion and wordplay of the poet.”

Two Stories Use Passion Views Poet Type Tools Ears Point Of View Thanks Genre Novelists Nonfiction Reporters Wordplay

Author:Lee Gutkind

“Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.”

Kind Book Chance Written Poet Red Ears My Favorite Dialogue Dragons Poetic Get Real Chances Are

Author:Bryan Fuller

“The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.”

Talent Poet Ears Comeback Writers And Poets

Author:Bryant H. McGill