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“When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.”

Thinking Men Literature Voice He Man Poet Hearing

Author:Norman MacCaig

“And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly, think weakly, and see untruly (second order of poets); the men who feel strongly, think strongly, and see truly (first order of poets); and the men who, strong as human creatures can be, are yet submitted to influences stronger than they, and see in a sort untruly, because what they see is inconceivably above them. This last is the usual condition of prophetic inspiration.”

Thinking Men Feels Firsts Humans Inspiration Lasts Order Strong Class Four Influence Conditions He Man Poet Creatures Stronger Usual Prophetic

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“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

“The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]”

Men He Man Poet Mad Verses Versus

Author:Horace

“Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.”

Ifs Men Should Soul Age Night Song Fall Tears He Man Poet Sorrow Fame Combat Loved Ones Shed Consumed Weeping Dreary Forsaken Renowned

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.”

Men Walks He Man Poet Dinner Rhyme Mint Catch Me Dinner Time

Book:The Poetical works

Source: The Poetical works

“The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.”

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Author:Pablo Neruda

“Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?”

Men May Children Littles Long States Use Shows Song Speak Teach Grace He Man Poet Weight Let Me Soldier Tongue Prose Verses Accents Foreigners

Book:An Essay on Man: And Other Poems

Source: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems

“All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?”

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Author:William Butler Yeats

“The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.”

“No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.”

Men World Heart States Secret He Man Poet Rounds Curious Neighbour Conjecture

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The manager-leader of the future should combine in one personality the robust, realistic quality of the man of action with the insight of the artist, the religious leader, the poet, who explains man to himself. The man of action alone or the man of contemplation alone will not be enough; these two qualities together are required.”

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Author:David Lilienthal

“How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."”

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Author:Plato

“The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do we think of Ezra Pound - clearly a great poet and clearly kind of an asshole? You can say the same thing about Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who clearly was a Nazi sympathizer, and yet one of the great writers of the 20th century. It is tough, but there are enough examples around where we have to somehow find a way of separating the work from the artist and seeing what there is to see in the work, while also condemning the thoughts we see in the man.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie