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“I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.”

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.”

Ifs Eye Christian Fighting Poet Praying Philosopher Arguing Warrior Staring His Eyes Mistress

Author:C. S. Lewis

“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

“Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.”

Kind Long Stills Done Christian Jobs Fighting Next Sleep Levels Morning Struggle Achieve Poet Wake Up Jew Buddhist Going To Sleep Being Free Good Christian Nightfall Zen Buddhist

Author:Maya Angelou

“The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.”

War Hard Poetry Fighting Winning Sides Loses Poet Passionate Defeated

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are”

Truth Faces Poetry Fighting Black White Dying Poet Truth Is Racism Mouths Black And White Face To Face

Book:Odes

Source: Odes

“I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I'm stubborn.”

Ifs Thinking Should Turns Fighting Grows Poet Surprise Stubborn Surprise Me Best Poem

Author:James Arthur

“My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world - unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.”

People World Feels Young Dies Fighting Wish Easy Advice Willing Poet Blow Glad

Author:e. e. cummings

“The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.”

“Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.”

Way Culture Fighting Actors Community Technology Poet Concepts Vote Scientist Innovation Embrace Journalist Engineers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson