“Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.” ShouldPossibilityPoetPhilosophicalMathematicalTragicPlotIrrationalImpossibilityImprobableProbable Cause Author:Aristotle
“A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.” KindMayArtMatterHardBodySeemsArtistOrderPoetHard WorkDisciplineChaosPainterParisWorks Of ArtVillageImpossibilityPadsGreenwichGreenwich Village Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.” IfsMenFirstsLooksPoetOfficeFunctionGood ManImpossibility Book:Volpone Source: Volpone
“The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited with approval and with no apparent conscious irony my early poem, "No Alarms." The poem was composed probably sometime in 1974 or 1975, and it complained about the impossibility of writing poetry - of being a poet - under the conditions in which I was living then.” WritingFirstsConditionsPoetJudgingConsciousIronyCollectionsPrizeApprovalImpossibilityAlarmsCrossingsCommonwealthWriting PoetryPeninsulas Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim