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“Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.”

Trying Mean Art Feelings Earth Remember Desire Poetry Process Seeing Fine Originals Ancient Hearing Endless Invisible Wilderness Poetry Is Touching Inner Life Fine Arts Ancient Art

Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“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

“Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.”

Source: The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

“The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.”

Poetry Literature Process Reader Originals Composition Foreground

Book:The Language of Inquiry

Source: The Language of Inquiry

“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

“In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.”

Giving Ends Country Feelings Poetry Perfect Expression Friends Give Me Originals Sympathy Companionship Country Life

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.”

Way Persons Poetry Certain Natural Memories Forget Particular Poet Genius Originals Impression Poetic Never Forget Freshness Natural Gifts

Author:Stephen Spender

“What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.”

May Mean Poetry Courses Forget Poet Reader Originals

Book:The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England

Source: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England