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“Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.”

Artist Religious Land Poet Saint Lawyer Journalist Professors Businessman Sailor Statesmen Gangsters Parasites

Author:William C. Brown

“Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.”

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

“The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.”

Ifs Years Actors Literature Rich Land Poet Hero Hundred Tragedy Jew Possession Classic Lasting Fifteen Aristocracy

Author:George Eliot

“When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.”

Giving Writing May Land Poet Flower Concern Rose Owners Yield Motto Simplest Gorgeous Ferns

Book:The Poems: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume

“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

People Death Land Poet Honor Stranger Prophet Death And Dying Dying Death Near Death Stranger In A Strange Land Someone Who Is Dying

Author:Khalil Gibran

“I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat."”

Wells Said Beautiful Mother Land Poet Waste Prize Significance Schemes Nobel Nobel Prize Great Poet Prerogative Waste Land Overcoat

Author:Alan Bennett

“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.”

Needs Hands Faces Poetry Land Youth Poet Fool All Things Driven Crafts Distraction One Time Verses Toil Accustomed Seeming

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to generations of immigrants. One of these immigrants was a poet-writer named Ameen Rihani. Gazing at her lamp held high, he wondered whether her sister might be erected in the lands of his Arab forefathers. Here is how he put it: "When will you turn your face toward the East, oh Liberty?"”

World Has Beens Inspiration Might America Faces Turns Liberty Greater Generations Land Poet East Symbols Immigrants Your Face Lamps Statues Gazing Forefathers Statue Of Liberty

Author:George W. Bush

“Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.”

Knows Land Media Poet Prison Heavy Sentences Journalist Turkeys Tweet Retweet

Author:Elif Safak

“The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.”

Said Belief Land Poet Messages Posts Hopeful Bottles Holocaust Message In A Bottle

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.”

Land Poet Battle Dancing Tunes Legends Rebel Dreamer Ireland Weeping Woven

Book:Tears of the Moon

Source: Tears of the Moon