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“poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.”

Poetry Voice Perception Poetry Is Accurate

Author:Patricia Hampl

“Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.”

May Art Two Poetry Levels Effects Conflict Elements Perception Function Dues Tension Interpretation Works Of Art Breaking Down Clash

Author:Yuri Lotman

“In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?”

Feels Writing Mean Poetry Literature Consciousness Subjects Style Strange Materials Integrity Scene Perception Aspect Relation Creator Description Soulful Absorption Articulation

Author:Patricia Hampl

“It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.”

Self Poetry Time Sound Lord Color Poet Perception Versions Weather Block Sovereign Fragrance

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry.poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.”

Kind Seems America Moving Poetry Universe Process Levels Information Poet Perception Treats Surface Tendencies Daily Life Openness Parallels Receptive Parallel Universe Bombarded

Author:Rita Dove

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

“If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.”

Ifs Trying Facts Eye Poetry Existence Cases Darkness Five Heard Perception Senses Naked Unseen Bananas Five Senses Naked Eyes

Book:The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

Source: The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

“Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.”

Real States Poetry Imagine Poet Degrees Perception Observation Clairvoyant

Author:Wallace Stevens

“There would still remain the never-resting mind, So that one would want to escape, come back To what had been so long composed. The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.”

Reality Poetry Imagination Perception Perfection Thought Wallace Stevens

Book:The Collected Poems

Source: The Collected Poems

“On hearing of the interesting events which have happened in the course of a man's experience, many people will wish that similar things had happened in their lives too, completely forgetting that they should be envious rather of the mental aptitude which lent those events the significance they possess when he describes them ; to a man of genius they were interesting adventures; but to the dull perceptions of an ordinary individual they would have been stale, everyday occurrences. This is, in the highest degree, the case with many of Goethe's and Byron's poems, which are obviously founded upon actual facts; where it is open to a foolish reader to envy the poet because so many delightful things happened to him, instead of envying that mighty power of fantasy which was capable of turning a fairly common experience into something so great and beautiful.”

Poetry Imagination Beauty Perception Thoughts On Life

Book:The Wisdom of Life, and Other Essays

Source: The Wisdom of Life, and Other Essays

“[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a woman dissolving into violence, desperately weakening everything he tried to do. For how could learning and poetry be defended when it produced such dreadful results and was advanced by such imperfect creatures? At least Julien did not see the desperate fate of the ruined lover as a nineteenth-century novelist or a poet might have done, recasting the tale to create some appealing romantic hero, dashed to pieces against the unyielding society that produced him. Rather, his initial opinion -- held almost to the last -- was of Olivier as a failure, ruined by a terible weakness.”

Love Poetry Passion Perception Destruction Romanticism

Book:The Dream of Scipio

Source: The Dream of Scipio