When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
Interpretation
Understanding poetry allows one to gain control over chaos in life.
This quote suggests that engaging deeply with poetry can provide insights and clarity in the midst of life's chaos. By deciphering the complexities and emotions expressed in poems, one develops a greater mastery over the unpredictable nature of existence, finding order and meaning where there might otherwise be confusion.
In practice
In a literature class discussion about the importance of poetry.
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.
Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation.
and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.
A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.
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