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«The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.»
Author: Mark van Doren
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Feelings,
Jobs,
Poets
| Keywords:
perversion, perversions, render, report, report it, sentimental
«The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them»
«The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| About:
Adolescence,
Poets,
Repression,
Theater
| Keywords:
adolescence, exploiting, keyhole, keyholes, obsessive, sexuality, shoulders, Through the Keyhole, tiptoe, tiptoed, wallow, wallowed, wallowing, way out
«The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.»
«There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.»
«The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Poetry,
Poets,
Politicians
| Keywords:
Challenges, in common, politician
«The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Poets
| Keywords:
adjusted, antisocial, currents, go along, sharpens, sleuth, tends, tends to, trends, well-adjusted
«The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.»
«The true poem rests between the words.»
«The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail»
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