The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
Interpretation
Poetry is about creating original and surprising ideas that engage and amuse people.
Samuel Johnson emphasizes that the core of poetry lies in its ability to invent and create novel ideas. This act of invention should produce unexpected outcomes that not only surprise the audience but also bring them joy, showcasing the power of creativity in the art of poetry.
In practice
In a literature class, to inspire students about the creative process of writing poetry.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. _x000D_ Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.
My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
The red and white and starry blue _x000D_ Is freedom's shield and hope.
It is a great art to saunter !
One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.
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