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Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

“The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.”

Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge

“In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.”

Way Has Beens Important Walks Teach Seeing Color Poet Shapes Harmony Woods Painter Faculty Museums Walk In The Woods

Author:Carolyn Kizer

“Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.”

Might Imagination Poet Judgment Faculty Fewer Tied Verses Blank Shut Up Tempted Outrun Easiness Spaniels

Book:The works of John Dryden now first collected ...

Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...

“In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches at the faculty club. In Russia it suggests the moral force of an art practiced against the greatest personal odds, as a discipline, solitary and intense.”

Art Ideas America Force Moral Poet Discipline Clubs Russia Intense Ties Faculty Lunch Solitary Odds

Author:Joseph Brodsky

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