A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
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Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.
Giving me hopes
I could cross her glances,
Elicit responses, exchange feelings,
Engage in courtship and I even touched
Her hands as if in an accident.
That’s all. She enjoyed giving me hopes.
25.09.2006
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Tore Up And Ready To Heist
'What makes poetry,
Poetry? '
So debatable could be the responses.
But I would say...
Its assessibility to capture imaginations,
In those minds the author has found...
Prepared to accept perceptions that touch,
An ability to comprehend...
Pieces of thought suspended,
To be brought into a collective reality.
Left to sit and dwell in one's mind.
'I see.
And...
This has nothing to do with alcohol?
Or being a little buzzed out on drugs? '
Where is this coming from?
People can be creative without being tore up,
And ready to heist off a tote from a joint.
'Now...
That is poetry.
I understood that completely.
Thank you for that image.'
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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A World Poetry Day!
Everyday is ever poetry day for poet!
World poetry day is poetry celebration
Especially for world people to honour
Poetry of all writings of the world ever!
Novels, stories and articles are in vogue
But poetry cannot be ever left as vague!
Matter of a book, a few pages of story or
An article of length Poetry says in a line!
Poetry is the essence of matters in nutshell,
A seed that grows into big tree with leaves,
Flowers and fruits to please and guide all
To live life better loving Nature and lives!
Sans the inspiration of religious philosophy
Said in echoing verses of world where is it
One can get solace and wisdom to face woes
Struggling on the ocean of life to swim or sink?
Poetry is oldest of old medium yet a modern one
Brief as telegraphic language conveying message
Beautifully, musically and echoingly as mantra
In avatars new ever using words and forms old!
World celebration of poetry day today is wonder
For poets and lovers of poetry on modern websites
Just as enjoying old wine in new bottles all over
World of human beings unique in whole Universe!
poem by Ramesh T A
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Shakespeare is like the world, or life itself. Every historical period finds in him what it is looking for and what it wants to see.
Jan Kott in Shakespeare, Our Contemporary (1964)
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I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
quote by James Ellroy
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As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
quote by Lance Loud
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I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
quote by Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
quote by Andy Goldsworthy
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
quote by Paul Getty
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Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
quote by John Barton
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Modern Poets And Modern Poetry
Modern poets and modern poetry seem far too complex to understand
For such as I a common labourer from the boglands of Ireland
Though whether it be good or not so it is not for me to say
As I'm not a poetry critic and so I'll keep my tongue at bay.
Maybe some of these modern poets are special and the poems they write are great
And maybe they are superior thinkers writing from exalted state
Most poetical critics now acclaim them and prefer the modern style
And 'twould seem that modern style poets are now the in thing and their efforts seem worthwhile.
But for me it's old style ballad, give me good old fashioned rhyme
To the modern style of poetry I'd prefer it every time
Like I say I'm just a labourer from the boglands of Ireland
And the complex modern style of poetry is far too hard for me to understand.
poem by Francis Duggan
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I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.
quote by Jill Robinson
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Necessity Of Interactive Responses
whatever happens in this die cast life
interactive responses are survival essential
it is necessary to phoenix rise know act
poem by Terence George Craddock
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You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
quote by Chevy Chase
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
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When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
quote by Margaret J. Wheatley
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Contemporary Sublime Poetry(2012)
What is contemporary sublime in contemporary poetry?
1) concept and conceptual pattern and stucture in poetry(e.g.discussions, seminal culture, negotiation and reinterpretations...)
2) Third mind and fourth mind culture; more than one culture in mentall formations and sensations in parallel or in conjuction with
3) Realizing conceptual and post-conceptual poetry in details, not totally.
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Sonnet- OnThe Holy Bible
The biggest miracle God did for me
Was that I found the Bible, in my life;
The biggest gift He gave was Poetry,
With which I overcome my every strife.
The Bible is a sacred Book for all;
It tells you how to spend your life on earth;
And walk the road to Heaven without fall,
And keep your soul sin free ’fore your last breath.
The Bible clears your doubts in many fields;
And gives great solace to our minds and hearts;
By it, over His faithful, pow'r God wields,
Providing answers with a divine art.
Just read the Bible and live as per it;
A soul will soon be celestially fit.
poem by John Celes
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I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.
quote by Aimee Mann
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