“Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.” ArtistReligiousLandPoetSaintLawyerJournalistProfessorsBusinessmanSailorStatesmenGangstersParasites Author:William C. Brown
“What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.” KnowsLooksPoetrySkyPoetCriticsCloudsPoetry IsProfessors Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.” FeelsPoetryPoetProfessorsDaringAbyss Author:Mason Cooley
“Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.” ArtCollegePoetModelsProfessorsValentineJane Author:Denise Duhamel
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.” BlackRocksStudentsPoetFriendsMy FriendsPerformancesFeministActiveProfessorsPunkMistakenPunk RockMarxistAnti-americanLeather JacketsDreams From My Father Book:Dreams From My Father Source: Dreams From My Father
“Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.” WorldIdeasForceSocialWatchesSawsHeardObjectsTaughtColorPoetTheoryBirthBlindIntuitionExcellentVisualsProfessorsSpheresGiftedLecturesAccuracy Author:Thomas Hardy