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“It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.”

Easy Opinion Position Poet Speech Essence Chaos Advertising Capture Free Speech

Author:Bill Vaughan

“While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.”

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.”

World Light Found Opinion Youth Poet Essence Filled Faults Tales Plato Depraved

Book:The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...

Source: The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...

“A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.”

Doe Feelings Actors Poet Essence Independent Supreme Prose Verses Accents Great Actors Independent Women

Author:Lee Strasberg

“The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.”

Giving Mind Body Poet Essence Prose Mind And Body Mold

Author:Virginia Woolf