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“Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.”

Poet Drink All Things Our Time

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.”

Firsts Use Mankind Poet All Things Native Instructors

Author:Horace

“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.”

Needs Hands Faces Poetry Land Youth Poet Fool All Things Driven Crafts Distraction One Time Verses Toil Accustomed Seeming

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.”

Soul Body Perfect Study Wise Poet Pure Shapes All Things Intense Good Wise

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.”

Mind Together Spirit Poet Highest All Things Praise Exploits

Book:The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods

Source: The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods