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“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?”

Thinking Said Behinds Poet Kings Army Deeds Exploits Stirring Boiling Peeping Agamemnon

Book:Plutarch's Morals

Source: Plutarch's Morals

“Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).”

Men Night Lost Divine Poet Bravery Brave Deeds Brave Man Chronicles Forte Agamemnon

Author:Horace

“It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.”

Men Used Fighting Son Poet Brave Deeds Every Man Used To Be Ireland Brave Man Enchantment

Book:The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

Source: The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

“Title deeds generally outlast poems.”

Poetry Poet Property Deeds Titles

Author:Mason Cooley

“The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.”

Has Beens Order Space Poet Distance Deeds Breathe Historian Imaginary Time And Space Revive

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.”

Real Nations Poet Deeds Possession Stranger Aliens Titles Owners Pens Strokes

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses