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Quotes from The Cosmos as a Poem — Vanna Bonta

1958–2014 Italy

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Everything poetic exists as a subset of a whole, and within the authoritative system of Nature.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Poetry is a transfusion of the ephemeral blood that sustains the universal heartbeat within human society.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

A phoneme, an utterance, could be said to be the beginning of poetry's evolutionary chain.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Poetry achieves its pinnacle when it is the perfection and mastery of expression (creation, perception) as Art (arrangement).

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

It’s of note that the word 'cosmetic' has its roots in the word 'cosmos.'

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

For literary purposes, the art of writing poetry can be simply defined as: A creative act using language as a medium refined to an art.

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Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

The forms [of poetry] are subsets of the principles that govern the cosmos itself which, by its very definition is: a complete, orderly, harmonious system.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Dreams are the food of human progress. Poetry, like all physics, ultimately quantifies the unquantifiable that is beyond all form.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

These elements — rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity — can inevitably be identified within whatever is proclaimed 'poetry.'

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

The social value of a poem is proved not by marketing or reviews but by enduring resonance, a process that occurs as a response over time by humanity.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Pythagoras was the first person to call the universe Cosmos, describing it a kosmos. The Greek word means an equal presence of order and beauty.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

All of life and the cosmos can be seen as concinnous (harmoniously congruous, neat, elegant) wholes with a whole, unless in chaos; and, even then, chaos occurs (or is avoided) within systems (whether minute or vast) that are themselves balanced, or concinnous.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful, it is marvelously ineffable.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vanna Bonta (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.