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Micah Mattix • The Integrity of Poetry | Micah Mattix
What the prophets were to morality, so too were the poets to beauty.
Thomas Carlyle • On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
this style of poetry, which I have characterized above, as translations of prose thoughts into poetic language, had been kept up by, if it did not wholly arise from, the custom of writing Latin verses, and the great importance attached to these exercises, in our public schools. Whatever might have been the case in the fifteenth century, when the us
... See moreSamuel Taylor Coleridge • Biographia Literaria
Arnold argued that a broad knowledge of culture, “the best that has been thought and said,” would provide standards to resist the errors…
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Chris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
great Danish poet, Jens Peter Jacobsen.
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
Poetry and Ambition
poets.org
poetry is a form which has many uses, helping us to develop ideas creatively in a range of areas. Poetry is such an essential form of writing for humanity.
Andrew Anderson • The Ritual of Writing: Writing as Spiritual Practice
Tennyson, as we see him in his poem, may be compared to the Western scientist who seeks the truth by means of dismembering life.