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“Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.”

Knows Stories Today Poetry Song Consciousness Teach Poet Heal

Author:Robert Moss

“The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a framework of order ... all great art ... harmonises consciousness with the ego-transcending Self.”

Art Self Poetry Purpose Order Consciousness Ego Art Is Patterns Great Art Imagery Framework Transcending

Book:The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

Source: The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

“In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?”

Feels Writing Mean Poetry Literature Consciousness Subjects Style Strange Materials Integrity Scene Perception Aspect Relation Creator Description Soulful Absorption Articulation

Author:Patricia Hampl

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.”

“Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.”

“The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.”

Poetry Consciousness Serious Novelists Playwright Aristocracy

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.”

Soul Poetry Imagination Common Consciousness Poet Opening Poetic Intentionality

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.”

Poetry Fall Universe Consciousness Study Written Promise Pages Track Poetic Blank Expanding Reverie Fall Into Place Blank Pages Right Track

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.”

Poetry Fall Consciousness Records Harmony Senses Poetic Reverie Polyphony

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.”

Persons Dream Poetry Consciousness Break Break Through

Author:Sheila Bender

“Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.”

Way Poetry Wish Emotion Consciousness Clear Slides

Author:C. K. Williams

“THE CONSCIOUS HUMAN You are not just white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not just black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be conscious human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God. Suzy Kassem “The Conscious Human” Poetry by Suzy Kassem”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“My stomach rumbles in this governed jungle, hunger drives as I drop the clutch into the 9th. Triple double struggle and only God knows my own. Cold world I need a fur coat to keep me snuggle and warm. I favor myself in this trouble I try to maintain, shout out to the chain gang, changed my life from spare change into a hole elevated mind frame.”

God Poetry Faith Consciousness Strength Communion

Book:The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

“I haven’t written you a poem in years it seems. How can it be my fault when the words to describe you have not yet been created? When the alphabet lacks the very letters? How can it be my fault when your loveliness only grows by the time I reach for pen and paper? Tell me how I am at fault when I am only a beginner in poems and you are exquisite poetry? To write you in words is to put a veil upon you. Why must I write when I can kiss you instead?”

“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.”

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“Consciousness arose miraculously, enough reason to live passionately.”

Life Poetry Passion Consciousness Poem Philosophy Of Life Miracles

Author:Evelyn Janeidy Arevalo