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"Invention is supposed to be the sine qua non of the so-called creative arts. It is what people usually mean when they say 'imagination'."

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"Invention is supposed to be the sine qua non of the so-called creative arts. It is what people usually mean when they say 'imagination'."

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"The act of inspiration is, i think, the sudden apprehension or grasping of a metaphor"

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"The act of inspiration is, i think, the sudden apprehension or grasping of a metaphor"

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"two purposes govern any piece of writing; the purpose of the particular category of writing, and the purpose of the particular example of writing'

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"two purposes govern any piece of writing; the purpose of the particular category of writing, and the purpose of the particular example of writing'

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"Personally, I feel that structure isn't intuited so much as chosen."

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A work of art must engage the intellect."

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Poetry is lyrical and intense, the reflection of an unearthly beauty.

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A work of art has certain requirements that make it a work of art and not something else, such as a restaurant menu or instructions on how to operate a car. 

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A work of art has certain requirements that make it a work of art and not something else, such as a restaurant menu or instructions on how to operate a car. 

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"A man who does not know the difference between being nearly poor and being poor, or who is willing to disregard in order to make better-sounding line, is not to be trusted. A man like that would say anything

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"A man who does not know the difference between being nearly poor and being poor, or who is willing to disregard in order to make better-sounding line, is not to be trusted. A man like that would say anything

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"Interest is partly created by making the reader ask questions, by creating tension"

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"Interest is partly created by making the reader ask questions, by creating tension"

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"Any work is tied to the writer's life even if it isn't specifically autobiographical."

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"Any work is tied to the writer's life even if it isn't specifically autobiographical."

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Is it?

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"The room envisioned by Rimbaud at the bottom of the lake is still a room"

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"But feeling is more urgent, and their feelings are expressed by the movement of lines."

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"But feeling is more urgent, and their feelings are expressed by the movement of lines."

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"A piece of writing is a body of information governed by a purpose,"

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"A piece of writing is a body of information governed by a purpose,"

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We have an unlimited number of ways to present a limited amount of information

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"So you take what you need and rearrange it, and you invent. Invention is supposed to be the sin qua non of the so-called creative arts."
I think here he's explaining that when you come up with something new, looking at it in a positive way is helpful. Be an inventor, be creative.

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"I may point out, however, that realism allows for fantastic images and ideas..."

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"But the work belongs to the reader. It's hidden subject is the life of the reader"

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"But the work belongs to the reader. It's hidden subject is the life of the reader"

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"that was an unhappy generation. They could never advance beyond themselves."

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We read to learn about our lives and be distracted from our fate."

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We read to learn about our lives and be distracted from our fate."

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"Purpose is predominantly communicated through structure."

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"Purpose is predominantly communicated through structure."

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Later in the piece it talks about the "perfect" structure, but who can really define what the "perfect" structure is? Doesn't it vary?

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poets try to think of new images, but it doesn't matter whether the image be new or old- what matters is that it be true

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"We read a work presuming that nothing is accidental, all is purposeful, whether consciously or unconsciously, and so we move through a story or poem by asking questions of it -- why this, why that? By coming up with answers, we separate the possible from the probable and follow the trail of the probable. We try to do that in the world, as well, but the world is not governed by any such rules of probability, or rather there are far more things affecting events than we can possibly see, and the result is a sense of randomness."

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Human beings require structures, looking for them either in the master plan of some deity or imposing them  to protect life and to protect and increase property."

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"Life" was the business of the middle class and the novelists who entertained it."

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"The function of our information (apart from its possible validity) is to make us feel comfortable in the world around us: that medium in which our time is spent. In fact, the world continues to be as much a mystery as it was at the beginning, but now as adults we have formed opinions and grown used to it, meaning we have worked to diminish its oddness, its menace and its surprise."

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Function directs purpose...At the same time, a certain tension exists between the form as it is defined at any moment within the culture and the individual example of the form.

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"Our question is what is it to be a human being, what is it to be me."---we want to know who we are

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"Our question is what is it to be a human being, what is it to be me."---we want to know who we are

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The images, however farfetched, have points of contact with our experience. The room envisioned by Rimbaud at the bottom of the lake is still a room.

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The images, however farfetched, have points of contact with our experience. The room envisioned by Rimbaud at the bottom of the lake is still a room.

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Many people believe that poetry is a language we do not speak, and that the best poetry is that which we are least able to understand.

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"Poets try to think of new images. But it does not matter whether the image be new or old-- what matters is that it be true."

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"But though poetry rises out of feeling, the poem is NOT just personal"

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"But though poetry rises out of feeling, the poem is NOT just personal"

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"the movement of of the line, also depends on the movement of the poet's soul"---How does my soul move?

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"the movement of of the line, also depends on the movement of the poet's soul"---How does my soul move?

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For some writers the art of writing may consist of getting rid of distracting ideas

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"The aim of the narrative poet is the same as for the writer of prose fiction--to interpret experience, with the difference I have mentioned: his writing will move in measure."

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"...if poets only had ideas and wished to convey them. But the feeling is more urgent, and their feelings are expressed by the movement of lines"