Saturday, December 27, 2014

SPORT

I consider poetry to be the sport of thinking and a poem a sportive act.

Henri Pichette



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PRAYER (2)

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Leonard Cohen



Poetry is one stop towards praying.

Bernard Halda



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STOP

Poetry is one stop towards praying.

Bernard Halda



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RHUMB

Poetry is the fifth rhumb.

Jan Greshof



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NATURE (3)

Poetry is knowledge, redemption, power, surrender. The poetic activity which is capable of changing the world is by nature a revolutionary force; as an exercise of the mind it's a method to inner liberation. Poetry reveals this world; it creates another one.

Octavio Paz



The artist must copy what is inside the object, that which exercises its action by the intermediary of the form and figure and addresses itself to us by means of symbols: the spirit of Nature.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Friedrich Schiller



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FLAME

Nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Friedrich Schiller



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