— Audre Lorde writer and activist 1934 - 1992
"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
„Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom.“
"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Kontext: The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am; and the black mothers in each of us-the poet-whispers in our dreams, I feel therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom.
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— William Carlos Williams American poet 1883 - 1963
Detail & Prosody for the Poem Patterson given to James Laughlin (1939), now at Houghton Library
General sources
„The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man“
— Haile Selassie Emperor of Ethiopia 1892 - 1975
Address to the United Nations (1963)
Kontext: The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjugation of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
But these, too, as were the phrases of the Covenant, are only words; their value depends wholly on our will to observe and honour them and give them content and meaning. The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act — and if necessary, to suffer and die — for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
These lessons must be learned anew by each succeeding generation, and that generation is fortunate indeed which learns from other than its own bitter experience. This Organization and each of its members bear a crushing and awesome responsibility: to absorb the wisdom of history and to apply it to the problems of the present, in order that future generations may be born, and live, and die, in peace.
„…and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language“
— Eric S. Raymond American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the open source movement 1957
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— Roger Fry English artist and art critic 1866 - 1934
Letter to R. C. Trevelyan , September 7, 1932
Other Quotes
— Randall Jarrell poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914 - 1965
"The Profession of Poetry," Partisan Review (September/October 1950) [p. 168]
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
„Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Music
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), The Poet
— Sonia Sotomayor U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1954
United States v. Jones, 132 S. Ct. 945, 956 (2012) (concurring).
„Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.“
— Michael Schmidt (poet) American poet 1947
The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006
„My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.“
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh American aviator and author 1906 - 2001
„Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.“
— Andrei Tarkovsky, buch Sculpting in Time
Quelle: Sculpting in Time
— Herbert Read English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art 1893 - 1968
Form in Modern Poetry(1932)
„It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.“
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
On the influence of Jack Kerouac, as quoted in Jack Kerouac (2007) by Alison Behnke, p. 100
Kontext: Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
„What we demand is new, decisive, and radical, revolutionary in the truest sense of the word.“
— Joseph Goebbels Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897 - 1945
1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
— Julian Jaynes, buch The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Book II, Chapter 5, p. 274
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
— Aristotle, buch Poetik
1451b.6
Poetics
Original: (el) διὸ καὶ φιλοσοφώτερον καὶ σπουδαιότερον ποίησις ἱστορίας ἐστίν: ἡ μὲν γὰρ ποίησις μᾶλλον τὰ καθόλου, ἡ δ᾽ ἱστορία τὰ καθ᾽ ἕκαστον λέγει.
— Reies Tijerina American activist 1926 - 2015
Quoted in Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America by Tony Castro, ISBN 0841503214.
„Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.“
— Terry Eagleton British writer, academic and educator 1943
Quelle: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 138
