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“Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.”

Ifs Way Doe Eye Choices Understanding Failing Subjects Mankind Creation Painting Poet Ears Satisfaction Wide Painter

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.”

Ends Dies Failing Poet

Book:The Isle of Blood

Source: The Isle of Blood

“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.”

World May Long Together Lasts Dies Language Lines Failing Poet Bounds Tongue Envy Vain Verses Prophecy Boast

Author:Edmund Waller

“The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.”

Feels Made Ideas Reason Feelings Hands Doubt Failing Poet Shapes Skins Impression Reason Why No Doubt Texture Matthew

Book:Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age

Source: Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age

“Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.”

Done Helping Use Poetry Failing Poet Wine Smell Former Thee Muse Lamps Hereafter

Author:Robert Herrick

“If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet.”

Ifs Writing Wells Hands Choices Failing Poet Duty Obligation Well Being Minorities Oblivion

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.”

Ifs Men Age Nations Waiting Failing Possibility Poet Mountain Highest Ideals Crosses Plant Come Up Immortality Realms Prophet Climbs Dreamer Impatient

Author:J. G. Holland

“I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own.”

Thinking Should Trying Term Failing Poet Taste Diversity Projects Appreciate Cooking Wide Mediums Allowance

Author:James Arthur

“Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.”

Artist Natural Failing Poet Cat Esteem Nervous Distinction Delicate Exquisite Refined Nervous System Delicacy Coarse

Book:The Cat, Past and Present

Source: The Cat, Past and Present