“If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.” IfsWishAudiencePoetIndustryAmbitionSakeArguingLecturesCrowdedCitations Book:Hippocrates Source: Hippocrates
“The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.” HeartCarePoetAmbitionCriticsSakeReputationPoeticStoicismLove Poetry Book:The Brownings' Correspondence Source: The Brownings' Correspondence
“The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes.” PeopleFirstsHeartEyeLyingHatePassionLanguageVoiceGriefSecretBrainFatePoetWindSourcePrideAmbitionSpringDeeperVainHis EyesMelodyDisguiseListenersStrainPenetrateHarpsTouchstonesTalismans Book:The Poems Source: The Poems
“Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.” WorldLanguagePrayerPoetBrokenAmbitionClothesPraiseDressesRemainsProfoundExtraordinaryHeroicDelicateHonorableGraciousEloquentBroken World Author:David St. John