“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it.” MenWantRememberQualityPracticePoetJudgingUniversalAcceptedCraftsExpertsDistinctionEtcDisplayMathematician Author:Blaise Pascal
“I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high.” IfsFeelsKindHas BeensMistakePoetDespairSuicideProfoundRateDistinctionCharlotte Author:Anna Wickham
“Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.” IfsHouseLanguageFiguresPoetSpeechOrdinaryPrisonDistinctionRejectsStrictUsageFigures Of Speech Author:Arthur Quinn
“Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.” ArtistNaturalFailingPoetCatEsteemNervousDistinctionDelicateExquisiteRefinedNervous SystemDelicacyCoarse Book:The Cat, Past and Present Source: The Cat, Past and Present
“The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to the transformatory distinctions Kingston makes between the conditions of being a prose writer and "the poet," my multigenre impulses incline me to a broader transformation: to be a writer.” BookConditionsPoetTransformationImpulseTitlesProseDistinctionContrastIncline Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim