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“A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.”

Love Is Sea Figures Poet Lays

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend.”

Source: History of Greece

“Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.”

Values Poet Lays

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.”

Way Trying Use Artist Order Poet Elements Lays Rap Technique Conventions Rhyme Meter

Author:Andrew Hoberek

“How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.”

Problem Poet Lays Biographers

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her, Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice. For end all good, all grace there freely grows, Had people grace it gratefully to use: For God His gifts there plenteously bestows, But graceless men them greatly do abuse.”

People Men Art Ends Use Grows Virtue Grace Poet Abuse England Lays Vices Wit Honour Advancing Suppressing

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

“When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.”

Book War Law Poet Lays Lawyer Reports

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.”

Feels Light Seems Song Inspire Poet Flower Spring Bird Raises Lays Paint Colour Spells Butterfly Feathers Lamps Caterpillars Ethereal

Author:John Lubbock

“I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.”

Facts Problem Would Be Creative Groups Poet Institutions Lays Workers Surrender Nine Spite My Sympathy Mit Marrakech

Author:James A. Michener

“I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.”

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly willing to lay down my life for my Constitution, but I am not willing to take a life for it or any other reason because I think killing people is counterproductive.”

People Thinking Should Reason Speak Willing Poet Constitution Lays Killing Assault Speaks Out Counterproductive

Author:Sam Hamill