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Source: Shakespeare, With Introductory Matter on Poetry, The Drama, and The Stage by S.T. Coleridge: Coleridge’s Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare and Other Old Poets and Dramatists

“The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.”

Persons Art Ideas Reality Poetry Literature Circumstances Intentionality

Book:The Language of Inquiry

Source: The Language of Inquiry

“Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back.”

Firsts May Facts Poetry Literature Lines Generations Poet Tradition Connections Absence Rhyming

Book:Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

“Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.”

Poetry Literature Names Odd Seekers Dickens Avid Gravestone

Book:13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.”

Poetry Literature Language Possibility Poet Genuine Successors Great Poet

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.”

Writing Long Poetry Literature Accepted Writing Poetry Baudelaire

Book:Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry

Source: Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry

“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.”

“The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.”

Moments Poetry Literature Progress Police Manage

Author:Ted Hughes

“The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".”

Art Reality Poetry Literature Hunger Unattainable

Book:Reality Hunger

Source: Reality Hunger

“In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.”

Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

“Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.”

Children Poetry Literature Language Parent Poet Equal Treats Affair

Book:Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

“Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.”

Ideas Real States Reality Poetry Literature Relate Latter Sentimental Naive

Book:On the naive and sentimental in literature

Source: On the naive and sentimental in literature

“For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.”

Poetry Literature Lines

Author:John Kinsella

“The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.”

Poetry Literature Contemporary Poetic Representation Disorientation Mimesis

Author:Tony Hoagland

“Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader read three kinds of pattern at once; code moves the reader from a static to an active, interactive and looped domain; while algebraic topology allows us to read qualitative forms and their transformations.”

Writing Kind Moving Form Poetry Three Literature Written Reader Transformation Mathematics Silent Patterns Active Code Domain Static Interactive Qualitative Topology

Author:Stephanie Strickland

“Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We should perhaps speak instead about their opacity, given that we cannot see through them to the machine.”

Should Poetry Literature Speak Given Effects Machines Transparent Interfaces

Author:Stephanie Strickland

“It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.”

Self Poetry Purpose Literature Language Challenges Roles Environment Reflection Machines Definitions Artistic Programming Introducing Self Reflection Programming Languages Multiplicity Coders

Author:Stephanie Strickland

“In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.”

Firsts Art Stills Hands Poetry Literature Depends Periods Capable Response Appreciation Genuine Judgement Minorities Discerning Endorsing

Author:F. R. Leavis

“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.”

Giving Use Poetry Turns Reading Literature Language Process Practice Poet Reader Projects Concepts Capacity Heal Division Accommodate Heal Itself

Author:Don Paterson

“Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in the sets of their attributes. ... Contrary to the assertions of Lakoff and some of the cognitive metaphor theorists, people can read through to an underlying mapping, but only when the surface metaphor is new to them.”

People Two Ideas Poetry Literature Share Metaphor Surface Contrary Attributes Our Thoughts Domain Assertion Cognitive Theorists Mapping

Author:Don Paterson

“I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.”

Feels Has Beens Said Book Lasts Poetry Literature Careers Stage Could Have Been

Book:Literary Occasions: Essays

Source: Literary Occasions: Essays

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