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To "live at ease" is There; and, to these divine beings, verity is mother and nurse, existence and sustenance; all that is not of process but of authentic being they see, and themselves in all: for all is transparent, nothing dark, nothing resistant; every being is lucid to every other, in breadth and depth; light runs through light. And each of them contains all within itself, and at the same time sees all in every other, so that everywhere there is all, and all is all and each all, and infinite the glory.

-The Enneads of Plotinus: The Fifth Ennead, Eighth Tractate

All is all - Poetry Generation Engine

The Information

Here are a few different surveys and introductions to the field of generative poetry that I've found useful.

Examples

Pentametron

https://twitter.com/pentametron?lang=en

When you Reach Kyoto - Brian Kim Stefans

http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/geniwate__generative_poetry.html

From Dust to Deep Learning: an Intro to Generative Poetry

http://interaccess.org/workshop/2017/aug/dust-deep-learning-intro-generative-poetry

Academic Resources

Journal of Mathematics and the Arts - A taxonomy of generative poetry techniques

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17513472.2017.1373561?journalCode=tmaa20

http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2016/bridges2016-195.pdf

Generating Text with Recurrant Neural Networks

https://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~ilya/pubs/2011/LANG-RNN.pdf

Beyond Narrative Description: Generating Poetry from Images by Multi-Adversarial Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08473

This one is really outstanding. One of the most interesting papers I've read about deep learning. 

The Gutenberg English Poetry Corpus: Exemplary Quantitative Narrative Analyses

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdigh.2018.00005/full

Coding Resources

Text Generation With LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks in Python with Keras

https://machinelearningmastery.com/text-generation-lstm-recurrent-neural-networks-python-keras/

The Illustrated Transformer - Jay Alammar

https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

Andrej Karpathy

https://github.com/karpathy/char-rn

Other

Quote from Plotinus, THE SIX ENNEADS

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/plotenn/enn481.htm

Gears ASCII art from

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.ascii-art/kgiB6eu0Gy0

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