“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” PoetryHistoryParticularUniversalPhilosophicalHistoricalPoetry Is Author:Aristotle
“I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.” ThinkingKnowsWould BeAmericaPoetryInterestParticularPoetAdvantageEnglandDistractionBotheredTroublesomeDominating Author:T. S. Eliot
“Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.” KindFactsLightPoetryEmotionObjectsParticularColorPoetLandscapeSensations Book:Poems Source: Poems
“I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.” WayHardPoetryLiteratureStuffDoorsRocksParticularMusic IsGunRoseLoudAnother WayMetallicaHard RockGuns N RosesLoud Music Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.” MayArtPoetryLiteratureParticularAidsDevotionArtisticMerit Author:C. S. Lewis
“A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.” GivingReasonFactsHappensTruthPoetryHistoryHappenedObjectsParticularSeriousPoetPoetry Is Book:The poetics Source: The poetics
“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.” WayPersonsPoetryCertainNaturalMemoriesForgetParticularPoetGeniusOriginalsImpressionPoeticNever ForgetFreshnessNatural Gifts Author:Stephen Spender