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“Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain”

Men Pain Names Given Heaven Pleasure Fire Fate Poet Findings Late Ill Feel Good Too Late Prometheus

Author:Lord Byron

“God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.”

Men Life Earth Actors Heaven Written Poet Drama

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!”

Earth Joy Song Universe Heaven Voice Cry Poet Sorrow Lows Glory Singers Inward Woe Amen

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture, which heaven forbid that I, professing to be a poet, should undervalue. It is beautiful, and therefore I welcome it in the name of the author of all beauty. I value it so highly that I would fain see it extend not merely from Belgravia to the tradesman's villa, but thence, as I believe it one day will, to the laborer's hovel and the needlewoman's garret.”

Should Believe Beautiful Values Names I Believe Heaven Wish Term Perfect Results Poet Fine Taste One Day Welcome Gestures Laborers Villa Fine Lady

Book:Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiograhpy

Source: Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiograhpy

“It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Doe Heaven Stars Secret Influence Poet Vain Height Daring Authorship Natal

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.”

May Names Heaven Common Poet Mountain Kingdoms Hints Kingdom Of Heaven Jupiter Olympus

Book:The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)

“I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.”

Poetry Heaven Poet Wall Colour Rainbow Feathers

Book:Trilogy

Source: Trilogy

“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”

Earth Heaven Poet Heaven And Earth

Book:Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None

Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None

“The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.”

Eye Earth Heaven Poet Fine Rolling Glances Frenzy Airy Midsummer Midsummer Night's Dream Mid Summer Nights Dream

Author:William Shakespeare

“But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?”

Book:Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

Asks Heaven Poet Splits Orthodoxy

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton