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“The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.”

World Song Path Poet Music Is Shining

Author:Lotte Lehmann

“Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation.... The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems. Levin's fearless willingness to tackle any subject combines with her subtle intelligence to produce a rare reading experience, the moving, psychologically sophisticated and intriguing work of a poet with both guts and craft”

Moving Reading Language Voice Generations Subjects Produce Poet Shining Crafts Fearless Guts Subtle Willingness Sophisticated Vigorous Intriguing Dynamics Reading Experience

Author:Molly Peacock

“All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose, when showing forth the praise of God.”

Mind Art Light Beautiful Spirit Purpose Sun Produce Inspire Poet Fine Holy Highest Musician Art Is Praise Harmony Shining Painter Holy Spirit Prose Poetic Fulfilling Marvellous Shining Through

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.”

Fiction Poet Shining Pursue Verses Brighter

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

“Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.”

Want Science Religion Language Behinds Silence Magic Poet Shining Painter Silence Is Daylight Illusionists

Book:Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays

Source: Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays

“These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world where “writing infects the landscape” and there are “more letters than leaves” - The kind of match one hopes for where both the translator and the poet are in luck; new poems which don't leak and yet old poems in which the original passion shines.”

World Writing Kind Passion Powerful Silence Poet Letters Eternity Originals Luck Shining Landscape Metaphysical Translations Leaks Translators

Author:Jorie Graham

“A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.”

Use Cutting Poet Fit Weight Shining Brilliant Former Diamond Rhyme Diminish Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Horace Walpole

“Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys sentiment, emotions. He is really the greatest poet ever. So I am really very proud to present the shining pearl of Italian culture around the world.”

World Culture Imagination Emotion Modern Poet Proud Shining Glorious Sentiments Italian

Author:Roberto Benigni