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“Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.”

World Cases Poet Ego Musician Extraordinary Dancer

Author:Rajneesh

“Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.”

Easy Ability Poet Extraordinary Perceive

Author:Marlon Brando

“Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.”

Kind Soul Seems Imagination Emotion Poet Paint Extraordinary Enthusiasm Height

Book:Saggi critici

Source: Saggi critici

“Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out or he'll start with some New notion or other.”

Trying Poetry Deals Watches Poet Extraordinary Notion Nuts

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.”

World Language Prayer Poet Broken Ambition Clothes Praise Dresses Remains Profound Extraordinary Heroic Delicate Honorable Gracious Eloquent Broken World

Author:David St. John

“There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland. We have young people like Eduardo Corral, who won the Yale Younger Poets Award. José Antonio Rodriguez, published by Luis Rodriguez. But there are only a few of us who are paid attention to in New York. There are legions behind us who are not.”

People Stills Young Behinds Attention Saws New York Poet Paid Extraordinary Awards Yale Legion Antonio Portland Gina

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason. For Keats, William Shakespeare exemplified negative capability, and I do think it's extraordinary that for all the thousands of pages Shakespeare left behind, we really don't know much about Shakespeare's own personality or opinions.”

Thinking Believe Reason I Believe Opinion Doubt Mystery Poet Personality Negative Extraordinary Uncertainty Capability Traits Left Behind

Author:James Arthur