Best poet & dignity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.”

Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge

“A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.”

Ifs Poetry Ignorance Poet Walking Dignity Destroying Threatening Trance Precipice

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.”

Ifs Men Saws He Man Poet Dignity Collectives Norm Convincing Brutes Repression Sameness Deviants

Author:Richard Sennett

“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”

Knows Three Poet Respect Dignity Soldier Worthy Priests Poetic

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”

Ends Reality Imagination Poet Degrees Dignity Importance Personal Dignity

Book:The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

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