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«The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness»
«The poet doesn't invent. He listens.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
invent, listens, poet
«The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
admire, critic, generous, poet, with reason
«The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.»
«The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
compact, compacted, lover, lunatic, poet, The Lover
«They shall be accounted poet kings / Who simply tell the most heart-easing things.»
«The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.»
«Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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aesthetic, appeal, appreciate, artist, art critic, critic, employing, employs, forms, manner, method, modes, our critics, painter, painting, personality, poet, pupil, technique, The Art of Reasoning, The Great, The Technique, the Techniques
«The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Experience
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confession, Confessions, poet, requires, The Confession, waiting
«The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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announces, announcing, credentials, foretell, foretells, foretold, poet
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