Creating Quote by Owen Barfield Download Open image “...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.” — Owen Barfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creating Poet Poetry Restoring
A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
That's a fairly Wordsworthian way to look at things! But yeah, actually - part of the poet's work, I think, is to maintain or… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new — Rory Sutherland Copy Share Image
When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things? — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis. — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“...library terror - that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books...” — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day, we can… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“Imagination is not, as some poets have thought, simply synonymous with good. It may be either good or evil. As long as art remained… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it. — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“All conscious nature has experiences of pleasure and pain. Man alone can deliberately will the repetition of an experience. And repetition, experienced as such,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
How could you feel worthless when God has honoured you by creating you and choosing you to be with Him, in this life and… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever… — Stanley Clarke Copy Share Image
I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music. — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know… — Fernando Alonso Copy Share Image
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
