Best poet & humanity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.”

Men Humans Life Is Artist Humanity Passion Healing Poet Sorrow Stress Storm Rejoice Superiority

Book:The Florentine painters. The Central Italian painters

Source: The Florentine painters. The Central Italian painters

“Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.”

Feels Whole Humanity Order Actors Talent Poet Waste Musician Obligation Painter Artistic Perceive Vocation Neighbour Sculptors

Author:Pope John Paul II

“The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.”

Reason Form Humanity Poet Mountain Spring Fairs Depth Ancient Forests Streams Majesty Chasms

Book:The Maid of Oreleans; The Bride of Messina; Wilhelm Tell; Demetrius; The Piccolomini; The Death of Wallenstein; Wallenstein's Camp

Source: The Maid of Oreleans; The Bride of Messina; Wilhelm Tell; Demetrius; The Piccolomini; The Death of Wallenstein; Wallenstein's Camp

“Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.”

Humans Age Artist Humanity Turns Father Poet Husband Novelists My Husband Breakfast Our Father

Book:Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution

Source: Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution

“Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.”

Country Age Humanity Simple Share Poet Court Inheritance Being Thankful Excluded Great Poet

Book:The North American Review

Source: The North American Review

“While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.”

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.”

Humanity Poet Sexuality

Book:The aerial letter

Source: The aerial letter

“Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.”

Writing Humanity Poet Novelists Worthwhile

Author:Marita Golden

“What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.”

People Humanity Can Do Fiction Poet Essays Fiction Writers

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”

Life Writing Firsts Humans Moments Age Poetry Humanity Speak Language Subjects Poet Source Protect Elements Tragedy Ancient Illness Old Age Human Life Tragic

Author:Louise Bogan

“A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.”

Artist Humanity Greatness Poet Kings Universal Accidents

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.”

People Want Life Humanity Worry Poet Popularity Loving Life

Author:Vanna Bonta

“God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.”

Thinking Dream Humanity Poet Slumber

Author:Peter Altenberg

“The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.”

World Persons Eye Spirit Humanity Mystery Poet Unique Intellect Poetic Reverence Arrogant Bows Manipulate Irreplaceable

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets set aside for when, after the middle age of materialism, humanity will have to start to put other values into his existence.”

Long Stills Age Lasts Values Humanity Existence Wonder Economy Seeing Middle Poet Shadow Islands Materialism Tribes Immoral Middle Ages Criteria Inhuman Global Economy

Author:Tiziano Terzani

“There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with philosophers and poets, or playwrights. We do not live in that moment, and the best way to gauge the proximity of an academic field to power is by salary.”

Way Moments Humanity Fields Poet Philosopher Best Way That Moment Academic Rulers Associates Salary Playwright Proximity Gauges

Author:Elliott Colla

“We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a not-knowingness, I think, that leads us back to suffering humanity with a more compassionate vision than most of our politicians have.”

Thinking Art Made Certain Suffering Humanity Vision Poet Politician Art Is Uncertainty Compassionate

Author:Sam Hamill

“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”

Humanity Poet Philosopher

Book:I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

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