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“Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.”

Certain Half Poet Proportion Nonsense Excess Cents Documents Privileged Sober One Half Insert Ransom

Author:John Crowe Ransom

“For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.”

Stills Whole Half Democracy Poet Bears Democrat

Book:Aurora Leigh

Source: Aurora Leigh

“Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.”

Men Pain Grows Half Music Laughing Poet Cost Rivers Beast Sigh Reeds True God

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, ‘No, you stay home tonight, you won’t be welcome’/ because I’m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or I’m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual / or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me / The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution”

“Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.”

Trying Lines Half Vision Poet Erotic

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.”

Ifs Hours Half Poet Gains Richness Spun

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.”

Art Lying Left Behinds Half Grace Painting Poet Masters Activity Soldier Finished Thinker Replaced Left Behind Statesmen Provinces Completion God's Grace Great Poet

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.”

Men Persons Real Matter Half Blood Poet Shapes Real Men Real Person Sissy

Author:Charles Bukowski