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“I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.”

Poetry Order Poet Submit Tribes Touchy

Author:Horace

“What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.”

Trying Art Would Be Poetry Artist Order Objects Essence Originals Capture Mechanism Activate Amplify

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“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

“Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes merely a manifestation of a language which has no other law than that of affirming in opposition to all other forms of discourse its own precipitous existence.”

Art Whole Form Law Poetry Order Literature Language Existence Break Definitions Genre Manifestation Opposition Representation Discourse Adapted Affirming

Book:The Order of Things

Source: The Order of Things

“What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.”

Thinking Poetry Order Poet Philosophical Philosopher Thoughtful Verses Enchantment

Book:Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

“In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.”

Ideas Poetry Order Principles Cases Poet Rose Formulas Combat Atoms Splits Definite Versus Brutality Obscurity Dissociation

Author:Ezra Pound

“Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).”

Art Poetry Artist Order Natural Modern Talent Poet Originals Realms Artificial Aspire Exploits

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.”

Philosophy Wanted Poetry Religion Order Rooms Morality Misunderstood

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I write poetry in order to live more fully.”

Writing Poetry Order

Author:Judith Rodriguez

“But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.”

Love Giving Art Poetry Order Lows Art Is Harmony Chaos Landscape Flats Attributes Inspirational Love Introducing Variation Highs And Lows Haskell

Book:From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition

Source: From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”

Writing Poetry Order Poet Prose Racist Power Of Words Vocabulary Great Poet Homely Great Poetry Prose Poetry Best Poetry Vocabulary Words Poetry By Poets Prose And Poetry Best Poem Best Poet

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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.”