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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

quote by Edgar Allan Poe
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For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.

quote by Francis Bacon
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Fakes Are In Demand

Mona Lisa is mere imagery;
Cinema is an imaginary.
So are story, poetry and history.
To make believe is their strategy.

Imitation, replica, duplicates,
And fakes are make belief for the real.
Make belief serves us giving second chance
That life denies us. They’re in demand.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Revising

The fleshless hands
lift the obscene violence of man
for life after.

The vacant eyes
will search for the keys
to open the sea

of blood,
faltering on umbrella of
imitation rain of democracy.

Age reaches the wolf’s den
I am sitting under the clouds.
Bullets are pouring.

poem by Satish Verma
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Mimesis: Morphed Magnetic Disks

Plato
contrasted
mimesis

imitation
with diegesis
narrative

mimesis
morphed
shifted

mimesis
usages changed
re-interpreted

mimesis
assumes
political

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Mimesis: Morphed Magnetscheibe

Plato
contrasted
mimesis

imitation
with diegesis
narrative

mimesis
morphed
shifted

mimesis
usages changed
re-interpreted

mimesis
assumes
political

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Take This Step

take this step
of fragility
follow me
inside myself

my inner voice
shall be
your inner voice

my echo
shall be
your echo

take this
step now
take this
offer of
an imitation

this & this

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The Most That We Can Be

ah, shy away from
imitation
there is no one
worth it

see yourself in the mirror
what fine hair you have
what sharp eyes
what big beautiful body
what strong arm
what long and muscled
legs

you are the most beautiful
man that you are
there is no other
be the most of what you can be
there is no other
you anyway

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Weak Life Search On Google

surfing on reality-oriented weakness
no hope for the future
huts dawned at death
technological breaths through poor imitation
i am sitting on the wave of googled truths
hearing Dortoyevsky's words 'I will choose God rather than truth if I have to'
faulty faces foolish mornings dissolving into the realm of xeroxed poetics

poem by Nyein Way
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Prayer

deep in my center
lies the
word.

it resonates
softly, it
whispers
in my ear.

its lover,
silence,
embraces
the word
like thick mist
caressing
golden
coastal slopes.

but this crude song is
a metaphor,

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poem by Steven Federle
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