A poem should not mean but be.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that a poem is not merely a vehicle for conveying meaning, but is an artistic expression in itself.
Archibald Macleish's quote emphasizes that poetry transcends mere interpretation and should be appreciated for its intrinsic qualities. Rather than focusing solely on the underlying message, one should revel in the experience and emotions evoked by the poem itself, highlighting the artistic nature of poetry in its purest form.
In practice
During a poetry reading event to highlight the beauty of poetry as an art form.
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.
I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me.
The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.
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