“Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.” ShouldPossibilityPoetPhilosophicalMathematicalTragicPlotIrrationalImpossibilityImprobableProbable Cause Author:Aristotle
“It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.” WayHumansWellsArtTermAwarenessPossibilityPoetReaderMajorsSignificantNovelistsReally Great Author:F. R. Leavis
“Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.” PoetryLiteratureLanguagePossibilityPoetGenuineSuccessorsGreat Poet Author:T. S. Eliot
“Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.” IfsMenAgeNationsWaitingFailingPossibilityPoetMountainHighestIdealsCrossesPlantCome UpImmortalityRealmsProphetClimbsDreamerImpatient Author:J. G. Holland
“I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as intentionality or dance on the page.” WellsSoundPossibilityPoetExpressionPagesDrivenVocalBardsIntentionality Author:Anne Waldman
“That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.” PurposeChoicesLanguagePossibilityPoetUtility Author:Matthew Zapruder
“I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years. We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet. Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.” WritingKindAgeFatherImaginationPartyEnemyPossibilityPoetAll KindsChineseBarriersCommunistForbidden Author:Ai Weiwei