“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
“The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.” TermSuccessfulTalentPoetUniqueIntelligentPeterMainstreamLife AlteringDead Poets SocietyDead PoetsUnique TalentsTerm Life Author:Ethan Hawke
“One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.” WellsDoeMadeSaidTwoRealityLanguageCommonWrittenObjectsPoetPerspectiveReaderHonorDemandUniqueSignificantTwo ThingsValidityPoetry By Famous PoetsUnique Perspective Author:W. H. Auden
“Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.” PeopleArtTwoMomentsRealityPoetryReadingLanguageForceCreationPoetReturnReaderUniqueOriginalsGravityParticipationOpposingElevationRecitation Book:The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History Source: The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History
“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.” IfsMadeIdeasEducationPoetUniqueMathematicsPatternsMathPainterMathematicalPermanentStatisticsMakersMathematicianMath And ScienceOriginal IdeasMathematics And ScienceMath EducationMathematics By MathematiciansGood MathMath Is LikeMath And Music Book:A Mathematician's Apology Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.” KnowsMenFeelsMaySpiritualFormActorsGivenKnownPoetMaterialsFineGeniusMusicianUniqueOriginalsPainterAcknowledgeStrongestLinksSpiritual LifeInventorGreatest GiftsGreat PoetOratorsExponents Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short, he has learnt his trade - that he should bother with literature at all. Poetry is not like surgery, a technique that can be copied. Every operation the poet performs is unique, and need never be done again.” NeedsShouldHas BeensDoneFoundLiteratureWrittenPoetUniqueTradeTechniqueBotherOperationsNot SurePoetry IsSurgery Author:Philip Larkin
“Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.” WellsTwoDifferentArtistPoetUniqueScientistCelebrateTwo DaysGlaciersBluebird Author:Terence McKenna
“The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.” WorldPersonsEyeSpiritHumanityMysteryPoetUniqueIntellectPoeticReverenceArrogantBowsManipulateIrreplaceable Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused - After all, we have monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, celibacy, and so on. In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.” HumansTermCitiesExamplePoetUniqueVoteStrangerDivorceConfusedInteractionAttorneyPolygamyCelibacyMammalsMonogamyUnique Things Author:Robert M. Sapolsky
“I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any sense of normalcy in their lives, any sense of security, and most of them are oddly unique individuals. Let's have a broader conversation with people that have spent their last however-many-years thinking about their lives. I mean, they're philosophers. They're poets. They're people who are on the outside looking in at the world through a different set of values.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanDifferentDesireValuesIndividualSacrificeSecurityPoetUniqueCommitmentPhilosopherCourageous Author:Marc Maron