“I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.” PeopleFirstsKindMeanDifferentHardPlayWantedGuyStuffStreetsPoetMaterialsPerceptionNotionDifferent Kinds Author:Matt Dillon
“The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.” MindHardHelpingPastProduceMinesPoetMaterialsExpectationsTasksBasesSavedAnticipationClueGenerator Author:Daniel Dennett
“Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.” CareArtistPoetMaterialsGloryDefeat Book:The Glory of the Conquered Source: The Glory of the Conquered
“genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.” KnowsMenFeelsMaySpiritualFormActorsGivenKnownPoetMaterialsFineGeniusMusicianUniqueOriginalsPainterAcknowledgeStrongestLinksSpiritual LifeInventorGreatest GiftsGreat PoetOratorsExponents Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.” PoetryStudyPoetMaterialsMassRuinsPoeticTrendsAphorismRaw MaterialsMake Out Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.” StillsRealitySpiritArtistConsciousnessModernPoetMaterialsDegreesMusicianAspectEnvironmentalBoundsIncludingIntimateMagnificentCommunionMechanicStewardship Author:Leonardo Boff
“For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.” PeopleMeanFilmArtistNamesJourneyPoetMaterialsDiscoveryStartingPainterNovelistsDiscoveringSculptorsStarting OutArtifacts Author:Mike Leigh
“There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.” IfsThinkingWayHeartLittlesImportantTogetherLanguageAbilityDealsMagicPoetMaterialsTendenciesUnconsciousFormulasAbility To SeeGimmicks Author:Erica Jong
“There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all we care about is language. At least in the initial stages of the process of writing the poem, though later other things start to come in, and a really good poem usually needs something more than just an interest in the material of language to mean anything to a reader.” NeedsWritingMeanFeelingsCareLanguageStuffProcessInterestStagePoetMaterialsReaderSensitiveEtcInitials Author:Matthew Zapruder
“That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience.” WayHumansMeanHardLanguageProcessInterestMistakeFocusOne ThingPoetMaterialsFocusedIntenseHorribleMysteriousHuman ExperiencePortalHorrible ThingsActivate Author:Matthew Zapruder
“The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.” ArtistCultureLiteratureIndividualTermWealthQualityMilitaryPoetMaterialsCivilizationAchievementPhilosopherProsperityRepresentativesMilitary PowerMaterial Wealth Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism