Quotes About Poiesis

#1. The physicists who look at their objects within their limitations teach physics; those who see the limitations they place around their objects teach "physics." For them physics is a poiesis.

James P. Carse

#2. The word poetry comes from the Greek word poiesis which just means "a making". So if you've made it, it's poetry. Even if it's breakfast.

Benedict Smith

#3. We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

Lawrence Clark Powell

#4. The hand is quicker than the eye is,
but somewhat slower than the fly is.

Richard Armour

#5. At home, she sulked with extravagance, and I learned early that silence was anything but peaceful. She was always upset about some slight, real or imagined, and more than capable of creating a full-blown crisis out of thin air.

Sara Gruen

#6. A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action

M. Scott Peck

#7. I like thick or middle (spaghetti). Thin for me is always overcooked by the time I'm eating it.

Mario Batali

#8. When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

Roberto Benigni