“Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.” FormSeeingPoetUniqueOriginalsAffairPoetry IsSanity Author:Philip Larkin
“In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.” WayHas BeensImportantWalksTeachSeeingColorPoetShapesHarmonyWoodsPainterFacultyMuseumsWalk In The Woods Author:Carolyn Kizer
“Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.” KnowsKindPersonsMomentsWisdomUnderstandingSeeingHumilityPoetBreathsCosmicSplitsTremblingStrideDisillusionment Author:Betty Smith
“To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.” BitsSeeingPoetMusicianComedianReally Great Author:Dick Gregory
“Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.” WayDifferentUsedInterestingAttitudeSeeingStylePoetTypeJazzGuitarFolksClubsSingersUsed To BePhrasesInteresting Ways Author:Bob Dylan
“You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred other good novelists or poets than by seeing another round of John Ford revivals.” WritingMightReadingSeeingPoetHundredRoundsNovelistsRevivalReading Shakespeare Author:David Denby
“I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets set aside for when, after the middle age of materialism, humanity will have to start to put other values into his existence.” LongStillsAgeLastsValuesHumanityExistenceWonderEconomySeeingMiddlePoetShadowIslandsMaterialismTribesImmoralMiddle AgesCriteriaInhumanGlobal Economy Author:Tiziano Terzani
“Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.” WayAsksTeachSeeingPoet Book:Deep Play Source: Deep Play
“My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I grew up in a household in Venezuela with living, breathing art installations that were the way that she used to express herself, a highly creative environment where ideas were celebrated, where artistic expression was celebrated. Seeing her as somebody who was always able to have a creative output - if she felt sad, she wrote a poem, if she felt happy, she made a sculpture - I think for me, there was an early interest in finding outlets for my passions.” IfsThinkingWayArtMadeBookIdeasAbleSchoolUsedMotherArtistPassionFeltInterestTeachCreativeEnvironmentSeeingPoetExpressionGrewFindingsGrew UpHigh SchoolArtisticBreathingTwelveHouseholdSculptureOutletsMy PassionSculptorsOutputVenezuelaArtistic ExpressionInstallationSchool English Author:Jason Silva