“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.”
Muriel Rukeyser
“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
Charles Simic
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
Kahlil Gibran
“A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.”
Kenneth Clark
“Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books”
Robert Frost
“Judge a poem like you would judge a person, for it was the person who wrote the poem.”
A.J. Chilson
“My feeling is that when we prepare a program, the experience can be just like composing poetry or music; as Andrei Ershov has said, programming can give us both intellectual and emotional satisfaction, because it is a real achievement to master complexity and to establish a system of consistent rules.”
Donald Knuth
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