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“A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.”

Mind Art Moments Natural Poet Sentences Painter Historian Impress Exhibits Deficiency One Sentence

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.”

“A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.”

Writing Left Style Poet Touched Historian Naturalist

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.”

People Poetry History Poet Historian

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.”

“Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.”

Men World Talent Poet Critics Productions Delight Historian Great Talent

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.”

May Has Beens Poetry Poet Ought Pens Historian

Book:Don Quixote de la Mancha

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha

“The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.”

Has Beens Order Space Poet Distance Deeds Breathe Historian Imaginary Time And Space Revive

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.”

Poet Historian Exceptional

Book:Caviar and Cabbage

Source: Caviar and Cabbage

“I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.”

Thinking Lying Poet Historian

Author:John Cusack

“Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.”

Giving Littles Persons Action Taken Events Poet Regard Contrary Admire Immortality Historian Reverence Our Thoughts Achilles Aeneas

Book:The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal'

Source: The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal'

“If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes?”

Ifs Believe Mean Eye Effects Poet Seasons Philosopher Experiments Historian

Author:Galileo Galilei

“What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.”

Art Facts Imagination Poet Exercise Judgment Historian Arrangements Selection

Book:Practicing History: Selected Essays

Source: Practicing History: Selected Essays

“In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred learning, their great statesmen and soldiers, their natural philosophers, their historians and their poets.”