What did Nicholson Baker mean by: Poetry is prose in slow motion. - Nicholson Baker Author · USA Copy
+ Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicholson Baker, Altruism, Shrines, 0 - Nicholson Baker Author · USA
+ You need the art in order to love the life. Feraz Zeid, August 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Nicholson Baker, Art, 0 - Nicholson Baker Author · USA
+ When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicholson Baker, Reading, Writing, 0 - Nicholson Baker Author · USA
+ Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicholson Baker, Ice Cream, Sauce, Spoons, 0 - Nicholson Baker Author · USA
+ I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read. Feraz Zeid, April 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicholson Baker, Book, Reading, 0 - Nicholson Baker Author · USA
+ You can register a political objection in a number of ways. Feraz Zeid, September 5, 2023December 26, 2023, Nicholson Baker, Numbers, Political, 0 - Nicholson Baker Author · USA
+ In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicholson Baker, Adulthood, Cases, 0 - Nicholson Baker Author · USA
+ The function of a great library is to store obscure books. Feraz Zeid, August 26, 2023December 24, 2023, Nicholson Baker, Book, Library, Obscure, 0 - Nicholson Baker Author · USA
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
What raises great poetry above all else–it is the entire person and also the entire world. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria