The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
E. M. Forster
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My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen. -
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. -
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. -
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. -
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
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- To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
- Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
- History develops, art stands still.
- The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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