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“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.”

Men Two Matter Turns Left Party Issues Subjects Effects Poet Aspect Fortune Disappointment Various Versions Consideration Plumber

Author:Thomas Frank

“Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.”

Ifs Way Doe Eye Choices Understanding Failing Subjects Mankind Creation Painting Poet Ears Satisfaction Wide Painter

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“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

“In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject.”

“On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend.”

Source: History of Greece

“We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?”

Asks Subjects Poet Chosen

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?”

Knows Should Mind Has Beens Sea Subjects Poet Moon Contemplation Sailing Bark Soothing Azure

Author:William Gilmore Simms

“How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'”

Writing Said Soul Process Sound Music Subjects Poet Music Is Musical Sensations Confession Composition Definite Lyrical Indefinable

Author:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“I never have restricted myself into a frame of a particular technique. My techniques are determined simultaneously along with the subjects of my works. It is similar to the works of a poet, the form of a poem is determined at the same time as its content.”

Form Subjects Particular Poet Determined Technique Working It

Author:Guity Novin

“Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.”

Men Emotion Vision Subjects Poet Prophet Solitary Dominion Herds Thoughts And Emotions Solitary Man

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.”

Poetry Subjects Poet Poetry Is Wanton Blithe

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.”

Should Art Different Ends Matter Form Spirit Poetry Given Situation Achieve Subjects Events Poet Circumstances Degrees Unity Mere Strive Instance Landscape Strife Penetrate Incidents Topography

Author:Walter Pater

“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”

Life Writing Firsts Humans Moments Age Poetry Humanity Speak Language Subjects Poet Source Protect Elements Tragedy Ancient Illness Old Age Human Life Tragic

Author:Louise Bogan

“The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.”

People Has Beens Made Care Justice Sin Simple Effort Class Written One Thing Subjects Poet Treated Reform Pounds Good People Rhetoric Essayists Scapegoat Orators

Author:Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

“There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in Still Life attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems.”

“Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.”

Subjects Poet Flattery Courtiers

Author:Decimius Magnus Ausonius

“Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile.”

“For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.”

Thinking Way Trying Ideas Perfect Impossible Subjects Poet Driven Poetry Is Way Of Thinking

Author:James Arthur

“Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me?”

Knows Should Believe Persons Said Lying Courses Five Subjects Poet Ideals Versions Novelists Liars Republic Truthful Believe In Me Autobiography Plato Tempted Excluded

Author:Margaret Atwood

“At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.”

Reading Views Crazy Subjects Poet University Obsessed Prisms Baudelaire

Author:Iggy Pop

“The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally understand that.”

Knows Looks Seems Artist Subjects Poet

Author:Gerald Stern

“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

“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”

Would Be Subjects Creation Poet Boredom Great Day Great Poet

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?”

Should Ideas Different Fantasy Subjects Inspire Strange Poet Guilty Flames Treatment Composer

Author:Franz Schubert

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