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“When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.”

Thinking Men Literature Voice He Man Poet Hearing

Author:Norman MacCaig

“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.”

Men Two Matter Turns Left Party Issues Subjects Effects Poet Aspect Fortune Disappointment Various Versions Consideration Plumber

Author:Thomas Frank

“When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.”

Men Heart Lasts Moving Dies Poet Tongue

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain”

Men Pain Names Given Heaven Pleasure Fire Fate Poet Findings Late Ill Feel Good Too Late Prometheus

Author:Lord Byron

“Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.”

Men Poetry Poet Rate Second Rate Booksellers

Author:Horace

“A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.”

Men Feelings Certain Poet Ought Pure Degrees Permanent Sane Great Poet Rectify Consonants

Book:Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

“Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.”

Men Pain Grows Half Music Laughing Poet Cost Rivers Beast Sigh Reeds True God

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works