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«If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average»
«For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.»
Author: Robert Penn Warren
| About:
Autobiography,
Poetry,
Understanding
| Keywords:
hazardous, poem
«Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.»
Author: Rollo May
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arises, Banks, forcing, forms, latter, limitations, poem, river, river bank, spontaneity, tension, tensions, The River, various, work force, work of art
«A poem should not mean, But be»
«A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
accomplishes, arouse, arousing, classified, classify, fills, for one, Good poem, natural action, objects, poem, rowed, rows
«It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
Good poem, indifferent, poem
«History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.»
«I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.»
«It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -- that is a life.»
«A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.»
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