We were coming to an intersection, turning right, chuffing to a stop.

We were off the road, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut.

We were in a field, in a tight, screeching turn.

We were back on the road.

We were slowing.

We enjoyed a paradoxical freedom when we were still too young for school.

We were not, however, entirely unacquainted with the varying aspects of the street.

We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.

We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.

We may say of some unfortunates that they were never young.

We were at a party once and heard an idealistic young European call that awful charge glorious.

`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.

We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.

`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.

We blushed and were flustered, and it turned out to be the fleetest brush of lips upon cheek.

We would have the means to seek out and destroy the enemy's force -- whether it were fixed or mobile.

We were in business!!

We were camping a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in that land of pirates, seagulls and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks.

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

We may carry this sequence one step further and say that at seventy he was a poet at the height of his powers, wanting only the impetus of two tragedies, one personal, the other national, to loose those powers in poetry.

Poe correctly predicted that Longfellow's reputation and style of poetry would decline, concluding that " We grant him high qualities, but deny him the Future ".

We want a culture that is not the culture of an elite, of a group that is considered ‘ cultivated ,’ but rather of an entire people .” Nevertheless, the success of the Ministry of Culture had mixed results and by 1985 criticism arose over artistic freedom in the poetry workshops.

We do not believe that poetry is revolution.

We were all afraid that he would be overly affected by the evangelical simplicity of American mindlessness and write an album that wasn't really worth his gift for poetry.

Other topics addressed in her poetry and novels include sexual exploitation of African women, and what Brand refers to as " a pandemic scourging the Diaspora " and declares, " We are born thinking of travelling back " which is suggestive of the individual and historic travelling and returning as experienced by her ancestors.

We do have some secular poetry ; in fact a great deal of medieval literature was written in verse, including the Old English epic Beowulf.

We can see the use of various Kannada meter ( poetry ) in Kannada poetry.

" We want the Demon, you see, to extract from the dance of atoms only information that is genuine, like mathematical theorems, fashion magazines, blueprints, historical chronicles, or a recipe for ion crumpets, or how to clean and iron a suit of asbestos, and poetry too, and scientific advice, and almanacs, and calendars, and secret documents, and everything that ever appeared in any newspaper in the Universe, and telephone books of the future …"

The twelfth century left its signature on higher education, on the scholastic philosophy, on European systems of law, on architecture and sculpture, on the liturgical drama, on Latin and vernacular poetry ... We shall confine ourselves to the Latin side of this renaissance, the revival of learning in the broadest sense — the Latin classics and their influence, the new jurisprudence and the more varied historiography, the new knowledge of the Greeks and Arabs and its effects upon western science and philosophy, he stated in his preface.

We cannot here do more than enumerate the leading troubadours and briefly indicate in what conditions their poetry was developed and through what circumstances it fell into decay and finally disappeared: Peire d ' Alvernha, who in certain respects must be classed with Marcabru ; Arnaut Daniel, remarkable for his complicated versification, the inventor of the sestina, a poetic form for which Dante and Petrarch express an admiration difficult for us to understand ; Arnaut de Mareuil, who, while less famous than Arnaut Daniel, certainly surpasses him in elegant simplicity of form and delicacy of sentiment ; Bertran de Born, now the most generally known of all the troubadours on account of the part he is said to have played both by his sword and his sirveniescs in the struggle between Henry II of England and his rebel sons, though the importance of his part in the events of the time seems to have been greatly exaggerated ; Peire Vidal of Toulouse, a poet of varied inspiration who grew rich with gifts bestowed on him by the greatest nobles of his time ; Guiraut de Borneil, lo macsire dels trobadors, and at any rate master in the art of the so-called close style ( trebar clus ), though he has also left us some songs of charming simplicity ; Gaucelm Faidit, from whom we have a touching lament ( plaint ) on the death of Richard Cœur de Lion ; Folquet of Marseille, the most powerful thinker among the poets of the south, who from being a merchant and troubadour became an abbot, and finally bishop of Toulouse ( d. 1231 ).

We have, then, a natural instinct for representation and for tune and rhythm — and starting with these instincts men very gradually developed them until they produced poetry out of their improvisations.

In 2005, Wiman wrote in an editorial " Not only was there a great deal of obvious logrolling going on ( friends reviewing friends, teachers promoting students, young poets writing strategic reviews of older poets in power ), but the writing was just so polite, professional and dull [...] We wanted writers who wrote as if there were an audience of general readers out there who might be interested in contemporary poetry.

Aesthetic Realism: We Have Been There ( NY: Definition Press, 1969 ), a book of essays by working artists in the fields of painting, printmaking, photography, acting, and poetry, documents how the Siegel Theory of Opposites " relates life to art and is basically a criterion for all branches of aesthetics ".

The current focus of New Directions is threefold: discovering and acquiring many new contemporary international writers and introducing them to the US ( among these are: W. G. Sebald, Roberto Bolaño, Javier Marías, César Aira, Inger Christensen, László Krasznahorkai, and Yoko Tawada ); maintaining a tradition of publishing new and experimental American poetry and prose ( recent poets include the National Book Award-winner for poetry Nathaniel Mackey, Forrest Gander, Eliot Weinberger, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Thalia Field, Peter Cole, and Will Alexander ); and reissuing New Directions ' classic titles in new editions with introductions by highly praised writers and artists, including: Jonathan Lethem ( Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust ), William Gibson ( Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths ), Susan Sontag ( Leonid Tsypkin's Summer in Baden-Baden ), Edwidge Danticat ( René Philoctète's Massacre River ), Sue Monk Kidd ( Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation ), John Ashbery ( Alvin Levin's Love is Like Park Avenue ), Devendra Banhart ( Kenneth Patchen's We Meet ), Will Self ( Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi ), and Jeanette Winterson ( Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ).

He has also released two compilations of his own poetry, humorous stories, rants, and insights on life (" We Caught You Plotting Murder " and " Do Not Disturb ") and is debuting a new book called " Fame Is Infamy " in November 2009.

Following the release of The Fiction We Live, then screaming vocalist Perri explained that the lyrics he was writing for the forthcoming album ( Abandon Your Friends ) would feature lyrics that were inspired by Billy Joel, stating that they were " billyjoelesque " because " they ’ re more straightforward, not what I ’ m thinking, what I ’ m feeling, instead of poetry and shit ".

Memphis poet and artist Frances Cowden, a member of Beaudoin's circle, later recalled that Inisfree, as he called his home on the river, was a place where local poets would gather to talk about, and read, poetry with Beaudoin: " We would all go down there and read poetry and listen to him talk about poetry.

His extended explorations of human life and mind, set against the backdrop of our own and other universes are like those to be found in every book of nature writing currently available ... We now routinely expect our nature writers to leap across the chasm between science, natural history, and poetry with grace and ease.