Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.

He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.

Perhaps the mere fact that by plucking on the nerves nature can awaken in the most ordinary of us, temporarily anyway, the sleeping poet, and in poets can discover their immortality, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable phenomena to which we can attest??

In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.

True reality, of course, is the ideal, and the poet knows nothing of this ; ;

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.

This seems odd when one recalls that he wrote poetry longer than any other major English poet: `` Domicilium '' is dated `` between 1857 and 1860 '' ; ;

There is only one Hardy style, but in the earlier poems that style is only intermittently evident, and when it is not, the style is the style of another poet, or of the fashion of the time.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

Nothing in all this is autobiographical: unlike the poets of Deor and Widsith, the poet of Beowulf is not concerned with his own identity ; ;

The bondage endurable by an oral poet is to be estimated only by a very skilful oral poet, but it appears safe to assume that no sustained narrative in rhyme could be composed without extreme difficulty, even in a language of many terminal inflections.

* 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer

* 1977 – Doseone, American rapper, producer, poet, and artist ( Deep Puddle Dynamics, Greenthink, Clouddead, Themselves, Subtle, and 13 & God )

This monk, scholar, poet, and artist had been the founder of the Shingon or " True Word " school of Buddhism.

* 1965 – Petr Váša, Czech poet, singer-songwriter, experimental actor and artist

* 1939 – Raôul Duguay, Canadian artist, poet, musician, and political activist

His son with Emma, Oliver Madox Brown ( 1855 – 1874 ) showed promise both as an artist and poet, but died of blood poisoning.

He tells how Ptolemy " placed in a circle around the statue Homer all the cities who laid claim to Homer " and mentions a painting of the poet by the artist Galaton, which apparently depicted Homer in the aspect of Oceanus as the source of all poetry.

As poet, painter, graphic artist and designer, typographer, independent publisher, film-maker, broadcaster and arts promoter, Chopin's work is a barometer of the shifts in European media between the 1950s and the 1970s.

The artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted a scene showing Ictinus together with the lyric poet Pindar.

* 1900 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist ( d. 1991 )

* 1966 – Jean Arp, German artist and poet ( b. 1886 )

* 1888 – Edward Lear, English artist, illustrator, author, and poet ( b. 1812 )

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

There are one hundred planned boxes, each of which contains a rubber stamp circle poem by the Scottish poet and artist, Alec Finlay.

Leon Battista Alberti ( February 18, 1404 – April 20, 1472 ) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath.

* 1812 – Edward Lear, English artist and poet ( d. 1888 )

Mervyn Laurence Peake ( 9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968 ) was a British writer, artist, poet and illustrator.

Higgins was publisher of the Something Else Press, a concrete poet, husband of artist Alison Knowles and an admirer of Marcel Duchamp.

Higgins was the publisher of the Something Else Press, a concrete poet married to artist Alison Knowles and an admirer of Marcel Duchamp.

The first Lei Day was proposed in 1927 in Honolulu by poet and artist Don Blanding.

* 2009 – Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist ( b. 1942 )

* 2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener ( b. 1925 )

* 1890 – Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet and artist ( d. 1918 )

* 1504 – Shin Saimdang, Korean writer and artist, poet ( d. 1551 )

The Romantics drew comparisons between Prometheus and the spirit of the French Revolution, Christ, the Satan of John Milton's Paradise Lost, and the divinely inspired poet or artist.

Either poet could quickly and easily select words or phrases to supply his immediate requirements as he chanted out his lines, because the kennings and the epithets made possible the construction of systems of numerous synonyms for the chief common and proper nouns.

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

* The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted / paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of Syracuse, commemorating the tyrant's win in the chariot race at the Pythian Games 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: " A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the Muses, spoke thus: ' He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.

As an instance of his tact in this capacity, it is related that when Charles interrupted a complimentary address by quoting from a satirical poem of Alamanni's the words :" l ' aquila grifagna, Che per piu devorar, duoi rostri porta " (" Two crooked bills the ravenous eagle bears, The better to devour "), the latter at once replied that he spoke them as a poet, who was permitted to use fictions, but that he spoke now as an ambassador, who was obliged to tell the truth.

The underlying concept of the poet as creator is not uncommon, and some modernist poets essentially do not distinguish between the creation of a poem with words, and creative acts in other media.

Impressed by the fate of the city, the relics, and not least legend's excessive descriptions, the German poet Detlev von Liliencron wrote a popular poem called " Trutz, Blanke Hans " about this lost city which starts with the words: " Heut bin ich über Rungholt gefahren, die Stadt ging unter vor sechshundert Jahren ".

In other words, the poet portrays kisses between a man and a woman as having the possibility of leading to sex, while in a heterosexual world kisses between a man and a man are portrayed as having no such possibility.

The Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote the words to the song in 1895.

It is in fact jarring to find the champion of American prose Realism, William Dean Howells, introducing Pastels in Prose ( 1890 ), a volume of French prose-poems translated by Stuart Merrill and containing a Paul Margueritte pantomime, The Death of Pierrot, with words of warm praise ( and even congratulations to each poet for failing “ to saddle his reader with a moral ”).

Here translated by the English poet John Dryden, Solon's words define a ' moral high ground ' where differences between rich and poor can be reconciled or maybe just ignored.

Capcom Joe Allen on Earth summoned David Scott and Joe Irwin, as their third moonwalk was ending, with the words " As the space poet Rhysling would say, we're ready for you to ' come back again to the homes of men on the cool green hills of Earth.

When Elgar was requested to write a work for the King's coronation, he worked the suggestion into his Coronation Ode, for which he asked the poet and essayist A. C. Benson to write the words.

The Háttatal ( c. 20, 000 words ) is the last section of the Prose Edda composed by the Icelandic poet, politician, and historian Snorri Sturluson.

His departing words were immortalised in the seventh ode of the Roman poet Horace, in which he exhorts his companions to " nil desperandum ", " despair in no way ", and announces " cras ingens iterabimus aequor ", " tomorrow we shall set out upon the vast ocean ".

In other words, Kirk argued that Homeric poems were recited under a system that gave the reciter much more freedom to choose words and passages to get to the same end than the Serbo-Croatian poet, who was merely " reproductive ".

While in the service of the Medici in Florence, Isaac wrote a lament on the death of Lorenzo de ' Medici, Quis dabit capiti meo aquam ( 1492 ), which set words by Lorenzo's favorite poet, Angelo Poliziano.

Towards the end of his life Smetana returned to simple song-writing, with five Evening Songs ( 1879 ) to words by the poet Vítězslav Hálek.

He did, however, have a distinctive voice of his own, most evident in the sensitive songs and choral works which show an unfailing response to and unity with each poet ’ s words, resulting from his thorough knowledge of English literature.

In making his lead character an aspiring poet whose words conjure the malleable form of a literary goddess — as well as the non-linear narratives and references to literary theory and alternative philosophies — Moore's thematics are closely aligned with the countercultural theory and politics of Écriture féminine.

" Noting Eliot's comment that, for himself as a poet, ' the words come last ', Tippett only began writing down the notes when he had a clear concept of the structure and character of the piece in question.

Handel's awkward, repeated stressing of the fourth syllable of " incorruptible " may have been the source of the 18th century poet William Shenstone's comment that he " could observe some parts in Messiah wherein Handel's judgements failed him ; where the music was not equal, or was even opposite, to what the words required ".

The French poet Pierre Guarnieri, collaborating with the Japanese poet Seiichi Niikuni, also used the term spatiality in relation to concrete poetry, implying that the white space between words also holds meaning.