In his Vie Anecdotique of 16 October 1911, the poet proudly states: " I am honoured to be the first model of a Cubist painter, Jean Metzinger, for a portrait exhibited in 1910 at the Salon des Indépendants.

The Italian poet Dante says of Aristotle in the first circles of hell,

In the famous Rigvedic Hymn of Creation ( Nasadiya Sukta ) the poet says:

Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.

Much has been said of Davy as a poet, and John Ayrton Paris somewhat hastily says that his verses " bear the stamp of lofty genius ".

Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for " elders ," and that the following month ( June ) is named for the iuniores, or " young people " ( Fasti VI. 88 ).

" Mainstream writers respond that several sonnets literally do tell his name, containing numerous puns on the name Will ; in sonnet 136 the poet directly says " thou lov ' st me for my name is Will.

Persian poet Rumi says,

In Charles Baudelaire's La Fanfarlo ( 1847 ), poet Samuel Cramer says of Scott: Oh that tedious author, a dusty exhumer of chronicles!

Richard North says that " though it is not clear what the poet takes these women to be, their female sex, riding in flight and throwing spears suggest that they were imagined in England as a female being analogous to the later Norse valkyrjur.

In Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson ’ s documentary A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, Lorde says, " Let me tell you first about what it was like being a Black woman poet in the ‘ 60s, from jump.

These features, together with poet ’ s precious » poetically-analytical mind «, which is able to convert a » stale literary canon and criticism into an inspiration for the highest level of poetry «, so says the » Veronika Award « committee, are innovations, which » give her poetry a seal of world importance and actuality « ( Explanation for the Veronika Award 2007 ).

The poet says that Hrothgar is so generous that " no man could fault him, who wished to speak the truth.

Robert Lecker, in the 1978 article “ Perceiving It as It Stands ” from Canadian Literature, says “ Marlatt has every right to join Kay and Gerda in flight, for their predicament, and the development of their story, serve as a metaphor for the problems of growth encountered by a poet struggling to break away from the frames imposed by established word patterns and the falsities implied by a world view which categorizes experience, storytelling it in standardized form, as if the motion of living was always the same, always sane.

The poet Ferdowsi says that Ecbatana was built by King Jamshid.

* Paul Valéry, French poet ( 20th c .) reminds us of the importance of representations and action: " We have always sought explanations when it was only representations that we could seek to invent ", " My hand feels touched as well as it touches ; reality says this, and nothing more ".

Treatise on the Astrolabe addressed to his son Lowys AD 1391. As the Franklin says in his prologue, his story is in the form of a Breton lai, although it is in fact based on a work by the Italian poet and author Boccaccio ( Filocolo 1336 retold in the 1350s as the 5th tale on the 10th day of the Decameron ) in which a young knight called Tarolfo falls in love with a lady married to another knight, extracts a promise to satisfy his desire if he can create a flowering Maytime garden in winter, meets a magician Tebano who performs the feat using spells, but releases her from the rash promise when he learns of her husband's noble response.

Daines Barrington, English antiquary and naturalist, says that Ombre was probably introduced in England by Catherine of Braganza, the Queen of Charles II, as Edmund Waller, the court poet, had a poem entitled " On a Card Torn at Ombre by the Queen ".

In the book The Doors, Manzarek says, " That Oliver Stone thing did real damage to the guy I knew: Jim Morrison, the poet.

Another anecdote says that al-Nabigha told al-Khansa " If Abu Basir had not already recited to me, I would have said that you are the greatest poet of the Arabs.

Bair says the French writer Francis Jeanson and the British poet Stevie Smith had similar critiques: in Smith's words, " She has written an enormous book about women and it is soon clear that she does not like them, nor does she like being a woman.

I did not find in Gold's book an explanation to the concept ' national poet ' but in the first place, this concept appears in her book she is pointing to my article ( 1997 ) that says: " of all the poets who began to at the time of Amichai, or in later years, since Alterman there was not a poet more popular than Amichai.

In commending the Samanids, the epic Persian poet Ferdowsi says of them:

Gil Scott-Heron, a jazz poet / musician who wrote and released such seminal songs as " The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ", " H2OGate Blues Part 2: We Beg Your Pardon America ," and " Johannesberg ," has been cited as an influence on many rappers.

Cristin O ' Keefe Aptowicz, slam poet and author of Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, was quoted in an interview on the Best American Poetry blog as saying:

In late 2006, Anand Tucker used certain parts of Cromford, including its historic bookshop, for his film And When Did You Last See Your Father ?, based on the autobiographical memoir by poet Blake Morrison.

In 1945 his younger and also celebrated Otago contemporary, the poet James K. Baxter, wrote ' Upon the upland road / Ride easy, stranger :/ Surrender to the sky / Your heart of anger.

The lyric poet was distinguished from the writer of plays ( although Athenian drama included choral odes, in lyric form ), the writer of trochaic and iambic verses ( which were recited ), the writer of elegies ( accompanied by the flute, rather than the lyre ) and the writer of epic.

In his Poetics, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle argues that kinds of poetry ( the term includes drama, flute music, and lyre music for Aristotle ) may be differentiated in three ways: according to their medium, according to their objects, and according to their mode or manner ( section I ); " For the medium being the same, and the objects the same, the poet may imitate by narration — in which case he can either take another personality as Homer does, or speak in his own person, unchanged — or he may present all his characters as living and moving before us " ( section III ).

In his Poetics, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle argues that kinds of " poetry " ( the term includes drama, flute music, and lyre music for Aristotle ) may be differentiated in three ways: according to their medium, according to their objects, and according to their mode or " manner " ( section I ); " For the medium being the same, and the objects the same, the poet may imitate by narration — in which case he can either take another personality as Homer does, or speak in his own person, unchanged — or he may present all his characters as living and moving before us " ( section III ).

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.

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.

`` Melodious birds sing madrigals '' saith the poet and no better description of the madrigaling of the Deller Consort could be imagined.

The grammarian Athenaeus quoted some verses about perfumed ointments to prove just how unwarlike Alcaeus could be and he quoted his description of the armour adorning the walls of his house as proof that he could be unusually warlike for a lyric poet.

Similarly, in 1971, Alistair Campbell stated that the apologue technique used in Beowulf is so infrequent in the epic tradition aside from when Virgil uses it that the poet who composed Beowulf could not have written the poem in such a manner without first coming across Virgil's writings.

However literary figures such as the poet Robert Browning and his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning could study and admire the Schlegels while still appreciating Euripides as " our Euripides the human " ( Wine of Cyprus stanza 12 ).

While a gay poet Grzegorz Musiał could publish officially, Jerzy Andrzejewski's last novel dealing with the subject of homosexuality was censored.

Dante's epic poems, known collectively as the Commedia, to which another Tuscan poet Giovanni Boccaccio later affixed the title Divina, were read throughout Italy and his written dialect became the " canonical standard " that all educated Italians could understand.

Yet it was Severn who agreed to accompany the poet to Rome when all others could, or would, not.

Part of the war motif could be a metaphor for the poet in a competitive struggle with the reader in order to push his own vision and ideas upon his audience.

Much of the poem could have been influenced by Coleridge's opium dream or, as his friend and fellow poet Robert Southey joked, " Coleridge had dreamed he had written a poem in a dream ".

In 1561 Luis de León, a Spanish lyric poet and an Augustinian friar, translated the Song of Songs into Spanish for his cousin, Isabel Osorio, a nun who could not read the Latin text, and wrote an accompanying commentary.

Cheryl Exum, whose work on the Song is also widely known and highly regarded, considers, however, that " The subjectivity conferred upon the woman by the poet inevitably reflects a patriarchal worldview ; how could it not?

As nothing is essential to the fable, but unity of action, and as the unities of time and place arise evidently from false assumptions, and, by circumscribing the extent of the drama, lessen its variety, I cannot think it much to be lamented, that they were not known by him, or not observed: Nor, if such another poet could arise, should I very vehemently reproach him, that his first act passed at Venice, and his next in Cyprus.

" The relationship did not develop into a new phase after their night together, and soon afterwards Gonne wrote to the poet indicating that despite the physical consummation, they could not continue as they had been: " I have prayed so hard to have all earthly desire taken from my love for you and dearest, loving you as I do, I have prayed and I am praying still that the bodily desire for me may be taken from you too.

Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a " human interest and a semblance of truth " into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative.

He was also able to acquire the mead of poetry from the giants, a drink of which could grant the power of a scholar or poet, for the benefit of gods and mortals alike.

In 1918, a trip to the south of France was organized by the Polish poet Léopold Zborowski, who had the idea that his artist-friends could sell pictures there to rich tourists.

A tenso could be " invented " by a single poet ; an alba or canso could be written with religious significance, addressed to God or the Virgin ; and a sirventes may be nothing more than a political attack.

The lady was rich and powerful and the poet gave voice to the aspirations of the courtier class, for only those who were noble could engage in courtly love.

It could not miss this literary group a tribute to Antonio Machado, poet Segovia made his refuge from 1919 to 1932, the sculpture as it could be otherwise is located in the garden of his home museum, and was done by Emiliano Barral.