“There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.” WayWritingSchoolArtistLanguageMovementPaintingPoetNovelistsIrritatingAppreciativeAllegory Author:A. S. Byatt
“In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.” MatterSchoolSpiritStudyParticularPoetEvolutionGraduatesRamaGraduate SchoolTheodoreDissertation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.” SchoolGirlCasesImaginePoetHigh SchoolStriveBeing The BestStriving To Be The BestBest Poet Author:Chad Harbach