“Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.” CommunityPoetImaginative Author:Joan Larkin
“Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.” ArtMomentsLife IsSpecialFieldsPoetCommitmentImaginativeMoments Of LifeLive Every Moment Author:Kathleen Raine
“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.” MayTwoEyePoetryImaginationCommonNumbersCreativityCreationPoetBirthExerciseAspectIdealsFunctionAddAll TimeMotivePoeticImaginativeUncommon Author:Walter Pater
“It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.” MadeReasonFactsHandsSciencePoetryChoicesImaginationDealsImaginePoetExerciseActivityDiscoveryLogicRhythmDataRejectionReasoningPoeticLeapSelectionImaginativeUnwiseCoherenceDiscovery In ScienceGeneralisation Author:Cecil Day-Lewis
“I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.” ThinkingWritingMindMadeCountryMy OwnPoetSpheresImaginativeOhioUneasy Author:Cate Marvin
“That's a fairly Wordsworthian way to look at things! But yeah, actually - part of the poet's work, I think, is to maintain or reintroduce the imaginative capacity of their earlier self while nonetheless maturing. And I do think the more successful the poet is at this particular thing, the greater their achievement as a poet.” ThinkingSuccessfulPoetAchievementMatureImaginative Author:Shane McCrae