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“I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.”

Source: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

“If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]”

Ifs Stars Poet Strikes Exalted

Author:Horace

“20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.”

Earth Poetry Break Century Poet Strikes Poetry Is 20th Century

Author:Diane Glancy

“The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.”

Firsts Sometimes Eye Sound Lines Vision Poet Speech Ears Strikes Locals Rhythm His Eyes Farmers Verses Texture Frost Bleak Epigrams Hold Fast

Author:Michael Donaghy

“The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.”

World Giving Art Soul Jobs Poetry Force Position Objects Poet Habit Dues Strikes Invisible Visible Tragic Unusual Glue

Author:Jean Cocteau

“As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my actual work as a poet. This strikes me as no thing cynically awry but rather seems again instance of that hapless or possibly happy fact, we do not as humans seem necessarily aware of what we are physically or psychically doing at all!”

Thinking Humans May Facts Seems Poet Strikes Instance

Book:Was That a Real Poem & Other Essays

Source: Was That a Real Poem & Other Essays

“There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.”

Sometimes Youth Poet Strikes Brilliant Audacity

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”