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Martin's Monsanto poem holds devastating power. I heard the first public reading at the Resurgence Festival of well-being in London. It brought truth with clarity,… — Tony Juniper
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally.… — James Parton
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would… — John Tillotson
Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron,… — Bernard Lown
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. — C.D. Wright
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always… — Ken Tucker
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play… — Brigid Brophy
Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But… — Paul Desmond
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and… — Robert Genn
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design,… — Nan Fairbrother
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem… — William Kingdon Clifford
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments… — Marilyn Hacker
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions,… — George Steiner
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial.… — George Steiner
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller… — William Saroyan
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it… — Terry Eagleton
First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well. — Unknown Author
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and… — Unknown Author
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have… — Marilyn Hacker
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. — Anne Sexton
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. — Marguerite Young
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in… — John Milton
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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