“Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes.” WorldWritingKindMadeDifferentEyePoetrySpaceDecisionFocusIdentityPoetConsciousAreasToolsPoeticDifferent KindsDifferent PlaceInteractingClearingSingle Word Author:Tracy K. Smith
“In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature.” DifferentAgeLawPoetryLinesGrowingArchitecturePresent DayVowelsHorticulture Author:Edith Sitwell
“Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.” WayArtDifferentPoetryUnderstandingExistenceOffers Author:Dana Gioia
“Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.” WritingKindDifferentPastUsedPoetryLiteratureFictionTeachReaderCriticalTheoreticalWriting Fiction Author:Nicholas Royle
“When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us with the tools of discursive thought ... An artist does it differently ... their primary approach is different, even though both groups, if you will, are investigating the actual, the ideal, and the discrepancy in between.” IfsDoeDifferentPoetryArtistLiteratureGroupsApproachIdealsToolsScientistPhilosopherPrimariesConvincePsychologistInvestigatingDiscrepanciesConvince UsDiscrepancies Between Author:Stephen Dobyns
“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.” ShouldArtDifferentEndsMatterFormSpiritPoetryGivenSituationAchieveSubjectsEventsPoetCircumstancesDegreesUnityMereStriveInstanceLandscapeStrifePenetrateIncidentsTopography Author:Walter Pater
“Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.” DifferentPoetryFoodPoetDrinkProseFood And DrinkProse And Poetry Author:Franz Grillparzer
“German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.” TryingDifferentTruthPoetryLanguageBeautyPoetPoetry IsTruthfulSoberDistrustFactualDifferent DirectionsBeing TruthfulFrench Poetry Book:Collected Prose Source: Collected Prose
“Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.” TryingDifferentPhilosophyFormPoetryReligionPoetPhilosophicalFactorsSpheres Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel