Books Quote by Jacob Bronowski

We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are…

— Jacob Bronowski

“The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for the appreciator…

— Jacob Bronowski

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

— Paul Fry

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

— Lewis Carroll

“The last great poem has already been written and will continue to write itself until you accept that you are the author and the…

— Sophie McKeand

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

— Stephen Spender

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

— Ted Kooser

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and…

— Jane Hirshfield

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

“But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that…

— C.S. Lewis

“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing , at…

— Dylan Thomas