Poetry is finer and more philosophical than histor... -Aristotle

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath who made significant contributions to various fields, including philosophy, science, logic, and ethics. He was a student of Plato and a tutor to Alexander the Great. Aristotle's works, such as "Nicomachean Ethics" and "Metaphysics," explored fundamental questions about human nature, morality, and the nature of reality. His systematic approach to knowledge and his influential ideas have had a profound impact on Western philosophy and continue to be studied and debated today.

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...