The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed. The Poetics of Space
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Quote:- The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the aura of esoteric truth as expounded by an elite class of specialists. But what is it, really, this fossil record? Only data in search of interpretation. All claims to the contrary that I know, and I know of several, are so much superstition.
Author:- Gareth J. Nelson
Category:- science
Quote:- The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Author:- Maria Mitchell
Category:- science,knowledge
Quote:- The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.
Author:- Mark Doty
Category:- time
Quote:- The physical sciences focus on reality’s shiny, superficial veneer, the materiality of which can be easily measured and observed.
POST QUANTUM REALITY: Simple Answers to the Toughest Questions in Science and Religion
Author:- Debra Gavant
Category:- science
Quote:- The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already... begun to be warped, had been subtly manoeuvred in a certain direction. Despair of objective truth had been increasingly insinuated into the scientists; indifference to it, and a concentration upon mere power, had been the result… The very experiences of the dissecting room and the pathological laboratory were breeding a conviction that the stifling of all deep-set repugnances was the first essential for progress.
That Hideous Strength
Author:- C.S. Lewis
Category:- science
Quote:- The physical world we live in is just the beginning.
Author:- Doug Dillon
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
Author:- Hippocrates
Category:- science,time
Quote:- The pianokeys are black and whitebut they sound like a million colors in your mind
The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena
Author:- Maria Cristina Mena
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?
The Interpretation of Murder
Author:- Jed Rubenfeld
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean.
Women
Author:- Charles Bukowski
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The pleasant showers and genial warmth of spring greatly altered the aspect of the earth. Men who before this change seemed to have been hid in caves dispersed themselves and were employed in various arts of cultivation. The birds sang in more cheerful notes, and the leaves began to bud forth on the trees. Happy, happy earth! Fit habitation for gods, which, so short a time before, was bleak, damp, and unwholesome. My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.
Frankenstein
Author:- Mary Shelley
Category:- hope
Quote:- The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.
Author:- Denise Levertov
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
Author:- Robert Penn Warren
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The poem must resist the intelligenceAlmost successfully.
The Collected Poems
Author:- Wallace Stevens
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The Poem That Took The Place Of A MountainThere it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain. He breathed its oxygen, Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table. It reminded him how he had needed A place to go to in his own direction How he had recomposed the pines, Shifted the rocks and picked his way among clouds For the outlook that would be right, Where he would be complete in an unexplained completion: The exact rock where his inexactness Would discover, at last, the view toward which they had edged Where he could lie and gazing down at the sea, Recognize his unique and solitary home.
Author:- Wallace Stevens
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The poet dreams of the mountainSometimes I grow weary of the days, with all their fits and starts.I want to climb some old gray mountains, slowly, takingThe rest of my lifetime to do it, resting often, sleepingUnder the pines or, above them, on the unclothed rocks.I want to see how many stars are still in the skyThat we have smothered for years now, a century at least.I want to look back at everything, forgiving it all,And peaceful, knowing the last thing there is to know.All that urgency! Not what the earth is about!How silent the trees, their poetry being of themselves only.I want to take slow steps, and think appropriate thoughts.In ten thousand years, maybe, a piece of the mountain will fall.
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Author:- Mary Oliver
Category:- poetry,inspiration