Once in America, his father would not allow the speaking of Arabic within the family so the children would only have American accents. The poet in the family speaks and writes like an American poet, but he writes with a sensitivity and intensity not usually present in “American” poetry. ...
The distinction should not be overdone: no human activity is limited to one hemisphere, and even the most elementary operations involve levels deeper than the cerebellum. But the common view that poetry is as more concerned with how than with what is said, does contain an element of truth. ...
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom... Poetry was not the disease, but the medicine... Poetry is sane because it floats easily in ...
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. —Allen Ginsberg 54 Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. —Thomas Gray 29 Poetry is at ...
This does not imply that poetry is illogical or lacks narration, but rather that poetry is an attempt to render the beautiful or sublime without the burden of engaging the logical or narrative thought process. English Romantic poet John Keats termed this escape from logic, "Negative Capability"....
When I decided to write this post, I found a good introduction to verse novels at The Australian Poetry Library. However, when I checkedthe link I’d saved, it said “currently unavailable”. I will share what it said, but you may not be able to find it online any more. (They do ...
Thebasicunitofmeasurementinapoeticlineisafoot,consistingoftwoorthreesyllables,oneortwoofwhicharestressed.Whenscanningalineofverse,apoetlooksatfeetasthebasicrhythmicunitratherthanwords.Afootcanconsistofmultiplewordsandasinglewordcancontainmanyfeet;furthermore,afootcan,andoftendoes,bridgemultiplewords,containing,for...
If you do not specify the password you will be prompted to write it. Options --unset: Remove the configuration element named bysetting-key. --list: Show the list of current config variables. search This command searches for packages on a remote index. ...
Pennylesse Pilgrimage; or, the Moneylesse Perambulation of John Taylor, alias the Kings Magesties Water-Poet; How He TRAVAILED on Foot from London to Edenborough in Scotland, Not Carrying any Money To or Fro, Neither Begging, Borrowing, or Asking Meate, Drinke, or Lodging., published in...
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning in that it wants to bring about the truth it proclaims; a form of action, of ritual behavior, which does not find fulfilment in the act but must proclaim ...