I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the transformative power of love and art, turning the human experience into metaphors of beauty.
In this quote, the author expresses the idea of using art to reinterpret and elevate the human experience, particularly in relation to love. By invoking imagery like 'roses and stars,' the speaker suggests that through artistic expression, even the most intimate and vulnerable aspects of humanity can become beautiful and transcendent metaphors, illustrating the deep connection between love and artistry.
In practice
Use this quote in a speech about the importance of art in understanding human emotions.
Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed
People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.
Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.
The magic of the music seems to light the way.
You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking.
The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it
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