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“It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.”

People World Way Self Common Poet Members Scientist Painter Limitation Renewal

Author:Gary Zukav

“Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.”

Self Struggle Issues Awareness Poet Conscious Depth Planes Conscious Awareness

Book:Love and will

Source: Love and will

“For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.”

Ifs Needs Made Self Play Politics Economy Poet Masters Tools Tasks Moved Slave Servant Liberalism Statues Assembly Craftsman Bidding Tripods

Author:Aristotle

“Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?”

Way Heart Self Inspiration Speak Humility Poet Devotion Priests

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.”

Writing Self Done Form Order Process Poet Work Done

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.”

“The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.”

Want I Can Self Enjoy Advice Poet Offers Being Yourself Enjoy Yourself Writers And Poets

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.”

“Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!”

Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.”

Should Years Long Different Ends Self Moments Used House Youth Poet Garden Claims Disappointment Fixed Long Ago Pilgrimage

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

“One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us to accept as virtually axiomatic a self-view and a world-view that demand we reject out of hand the wisdom and vision of our major philosophers and poets in order to imprison our thought and our very selves in the materialist, mechanical and dogmatic torture-chamber devised by purely quantitative and third-rate scientific minds.”

Source: Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology

“... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.”

People Mind Firsts Two Self Reason Feelings Together Poetry Class Willing Poet Right Now Critical Intense Reason Why Poetry Is Sixty Indulgence First Class Self Indulgence Intense Feelings

Author:May Sarton

“It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.”

Self Poetry Time Sound Lord Color Poet Perception Versions Weather Block Sovereign Fragrance

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.”

Made Self Hands Poetry Poet Rain Window Curse Pens Disciple

Author:Anne Sexton

“A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.”

Doe Self Poet Great Poet

Book:The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979

Source: The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979

“It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.”

Self Poetry Poet Goes On Cruelty Curious Admitting

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.”

Self Philosophy Poetry Religion Poet Philosophical Obscure Castration

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.”

Ifs Writing Two Self Poet Two Things Manuscripts Envelopes

Author:Philip Larkin

“I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that we will ever see. If they could keep writing and keep a voice alive, keep people hopeful through their poetry, then I would be ashamed to stop and to give in. It would be really self-indulgent, unacceptable, and inexcusable to walk away from it.”

People Ifs Giving Writing Looks Self Would Be Voice Walks Alive Poet Unions Hopefully Ashamed Hopeful Soviet Soviet Union Anna Great Poet Self Indulgent

Author:Sara Paretsky

“I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.”

Thinking Knows Self Easy Taken Poet Comfortable Swimming Pool Routes Protective Swimming Pool

Author:Sam Hamill

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.”

Ifs Men Mind Has Beens Self Failing Subjects Poet Madness Driven Experts Gates Controlled Verses Muse Adequate

Book:A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues

Source: A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues

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