“Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate; Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals; Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.” MindFeelingsSpiritualPoetryPerfectPoetConcernedPhilosophicalPassionateSensesPoetry IsMetaphysicsAntithesis Author:Samuel Beckett
“Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.” ThinkingMenWayWellsKindMeanArtMadeI CanStoriesUsePoetryVoiceFivePoetExpressionTraditionTheaterMusicalFolksSensesMediumsAll TimeAppealsNarrativeProseOne ManPeculiarGesturesVersesDo The BestPrintedTelling StoriesDynamicsFive SensesAnesthetics Book:The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction
“I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.” MadeFormPoetryLanguageBlackWhiteMovementColorPoetRedBlueGreenSensesRhythmPoeticFlatteredVowelsConsonants Author:Arthur Rimbaud
“But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.” ArtPoetryObjectsArt IsSensesObjectivesEmploymentSensual Author:William Carlos Williams
“Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.” LightPoetryRolesRecordsLaysSensesShakesSurroundSurprisingStrictSurprising Things Author:Jean Cocteau
“I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.” ThinkingFirstsHumansPersonsStillsTwoTruthLastsFormPoetrySpeakConsciousnessVisionPoetShapesEssentialsFunctionDareSensesTelling The TruthFirst PersonSpeak The TruthNewnessPioneering Author:Diane di Prima
“A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.” NeedsSoulPoetryUnderstandingWaterAcceptingMysterySensesLakesSensationsSwimShoreDivingBright Star Author:John Keats
“All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.” PoetryFallConsciousnessRecordsHarmonySensesPoeticReveriePolyphony Author:Gaston Bachelard
“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.” IfsTryingFactsEyePoetryExistenceCasesDarknessFiveHeardPerceptionSensesNakedUnseenBananasFive SensesNaked Eyes Book:The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop Source: The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop