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“Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.”

Poetry House Pleasure Feet Poet Forgotten Dust Ruined Mansions Lodges

Book:Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers

Source: Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers

“Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.”

People Thinking World Moments Memories Secret Too Much Poet Findings Originals Everyday Forgotten Familiar Unfamiliar Outside World Guarded Visitation Secret Places

Book:The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis

Source: The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis

“Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]”

Death Sleep Poet Forgotten Wit Cease

Author:Lucretius

“My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.”

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.”

People Ifs Thinking Children Doe Has Beens Soul Black White Magic Poet Adults Forgotten Bones Prisoner Black People Decline Continents Cowboy Weeping Buffalo Settlers Cowgirls

Author:Tom Robbins

“Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.”

People Should Artist Walks Poet Citizens Band Forgotten Radio Wide Variety Dry Cleaners Walks Of Life Dry Cleaners

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.”

World Night Fall Morning Fate Poet Falling In Love Forgotten Spite Poetry Is World History Insomniac

Book:What the Twilight Says: Essays

Source: What the Twilight Says: Essays

“Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue. For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

Source: A Room of One's Own

“In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen.”

Made Book Film Actors Cutting Written Poet Tvs Shapes Forgotten Obvious Actresses Screens Ties Prose Leap Legendary Avant Garde Miniatures Actors And Actresses Film Actors

Author:Denise Duhamel