#poet

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc. ↗

— David Bohm

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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found. ↗

— Paul Engle

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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

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I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song. ↗

— David Byrne

#music #poetry #design

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do. ↗

— Mari Evans

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