“Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the category of poetry, the number of meaningful elements in it acquires the capacity to grow and the system of their combinations also becomes more complex.” ArtPoetryCertainGivenGrowsNumbersElementsCapacityComplexesMeaningfulCombinationPerceiveAcquireCategoriesRestriction Author:Yuri Lotman
“This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader; and in doing so they turn language against its own project of conceptual division, and use it to heal itself - and in the process - paradoxically - to articulate new concepts that it can't yet accommodate.” GivingUsePoetryTurnsReadingLiteratureLanguageProcessPracticePoetReaderProjectsConceptsCapacityHealDivisionAccommodateHeal Itself Author:Don Paterson
“These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.” HumansMayHas BeensPoetryLiteratureSocialCreativityCapacitySelectionRandomness Author:Geoffrey Miller
“Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.” KindMayPersonsActionMovingPoetryAttitudeKnownPoetReaderSpeechCapacityInspiredBreatheRecognitionProphetRevelationsPoeticIntensityListenersProphecyParallelsExceedTransfersUtterancePropheticReceiverNew WordsNew Attitude Author:Denise Levertov
“The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.” MenLittlesPoetryCapacityMythMeaningfulPoetry IsMeaningful LifeGreat Poetry Author:Robert Penn Warren
“The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.” MenWritingMayLittlesEndsLightPoetryCapacityMythMeaningfulMeaning Of LifePoetry IsMeaningful LifeLife MeansGreat PoetryWhat Is Poetry Author:Robert Penn Warren
“You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.” BelieveSeemsPoetryWrittenHolyCapacityMiracleShort TimeUnwritten Author:Theodore Roethke
“The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.” IfsWayHumansArtInspirationPoetrySpeakFeltBornLinesHuman BeingsSpaceWhiteQualityGraceDivinePoetCapableCapacityRemainsVersesPersistSelflessnessArrangingPrecious GiftsBetween The LinesWhite Space Author:Aldous Huxley