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“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

“For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.”

Men Should May Use Law Poet Friends Prove Contrary Ads

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.”

Men Said Soul Law Walks Poet Simplicity Virtuous Vicious Prudence

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art; but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning.”

Source: Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

“genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.”

“Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.”

“Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.”

Men Want Children Poetry Objects Poet

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.”

Men Heart Poetry Suffering Tears Poet Sorrow Every Man Poetry Is Verses

Author:Marc-Andre Fleury

“Inside every man there is a poet who died young.”

Men Young Poet Died Every Man

Author:Stefan Kanfer

“Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile.”

“I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.”

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Author:Gabriele d'Annunzio

“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.”

Men Writing Poet Release Bombs Dragons Pushing Poetic Buttons Slaying

Author:W. H. Auden

“No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.”

Men World Heart States Secret He Man Poet Rounds Curious Neighbour Conjecture

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.”

Men Poet Categories Irrelevant Bizarre

Author:Vanna Bonta

“Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.”

Men Way Art Wanted Young Poet Originals Young Man Original Art

Author:Mark Nepo

“A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.”

Men God Force Poet Scientist Rely Unseen Rely Upon Unarmed Unseen Forces

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.”

Men Forever Sea Poet Criticism Critics Wander Regions Old Man Enchantment

Book:Select Poetical Works

Source: Select Poetical Works

“Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.”

Men Poetry Poet Joyful

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.”

Men Poet Witness Miserable

Author:Lord Byron

“Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.”

Men Heart Seems Song Next Poet Worn

Book:Retrogression: and other poems

Source: Retrogression: and other poems

“I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. Some Latino poets who barely speak English and Asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. It was luck nad being in the right place. I wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.”

Men Want Believe Made Said Speak Black Stage Poet Tvs Luck Bunch Made It They Said Unlikely Asian Latino Right Place Speak English Saying Nothing

Author:Russell Simmons

“Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.”

Men Divine Poet Philosopher Witty Excellent Prophet Etc Melancholy Bees

Author:Aristotle

“... Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved, And been well nurtured in his mother tongue.”

Ifs Men Wells Art Soul Dream Mother Speak Vision Alive Poet Tongue Every Man Mother Tongue

Book:The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

“Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.”

Men Poet Ideals Clever Poetic Temperament Ardent

Author:Edwin Markham

“Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets who, like Byron, express these states, Poetry would lack something.”

Ifs Men Should Important States Joy Passion Grief Doubt Poet Rage No Doubt Etc Poetry Is Amusing Detached Amused Utterance Love Passion Byron Irreverent

Author:W. H. Auden

“When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.”

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical

“He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.”

Author:Eric Gamalinda

“One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.”

Men Littles War Hands Night Nations Sea Security Poet Eternal Profession Thieves Distrust Wisest Parables Elementals Amity War Love

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.”

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Author:William Wordsworth

“I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!”

Ifs Thinking Men Wells May Modern Poet Here And Now Poignant

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one”

Men Sometimes Artist Three Poet Madmen Three In One

Author:Jessica Lange

“The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.”

Men Doe Poet Paper Brushes

Author:Yang Wanli

“A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.”

Men Way Firsts Children Two Saws Dying Poet Two Ways

Author:James A. Michener

“You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?”

Men May Able Doubt Poet Ought Difficulty Profound Solve Treasure Great Men Word Of God Verses Renowned

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.”

Men Memories Poet Residence

Book:Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

Source: Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

“One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.”

Men Doe Said Age Lasts Grows Pleasure Poet Honor Fellows Making Money Worn Fellow Man Worn Out

Author:Thucydides

“The manager-leader of the future should combine in one personality the robust, realistic quality of the man of action with the insight of the artist, the religious leader, the poet, who explains man to himself. The man of action alone or the man of contemplation alone will not be enough; these two qualities together are required.”

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Author:David Lilienthal

“A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.”

Men Heart May Soul Beautiful Suffering Sound Cry Poet Creatures Lips Unhappy Your Soul Torture Streams Sigh Flocks Beautiful Music

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."”

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Author:Plato

“The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.”

Men Made Soul Whole Universe He Man Poet Activity Solve Riddle

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to dinner and tell him secrets of state, and his fellow-poets. The actual audience he gets consists of myopic schoolteachers, pimply young men who eat in cafeterias, and his fellow-poets. This means, in fact, he writes for his fellow-poets.”

Men Writing Mean States Facts Beautiful Young Powerful Secret Audience Imagine Poet Bed Ideals Fellows Dinner Young Man Invites Cafeteria Myopic

Author:W. H. Auden

“You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.”

Men Facts Eye Political Moral Danger Poet Judging Degrees Institutions Political Systems Through The Eyes Political Institutions

Author:Roque Dalton

“"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.”

Men World Doe Whole Today Poet Involved Painter Thinker Primitive Hunters Fisherman

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.”

Knows Men Hours Poet

Author:Robert Frost

“Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.”

Men Poet Conspiring

Book:The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

“Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.”

Book:Queen of Angels

Source: Queen of Angels

“It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.”

Men Giving Character Jobs Lost Doubt Poet Contact Disciplined Life

Author:Wallace Stevens

“I've always been more than a little mystified by poets who seem to think talking to people as directly as possible is a bad thing. I mean, I don't want to set up a straw man here: I understand that for many poets - and for me, at times - writing truly means writing in a way that is difficult, simply because the poem is trying to grasp for something elusive. So the difficulty of the poem is just unavoidable, and not in any way artificially imposed. So "as possible" is the key part of the phrase above, I suppose.”

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Author:Matthew Zapruder

“I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.”

Men Writing Heart I Can Poet My Heart Shelves Renaissance Renaissance Man

Author:Anthony Mackie

“The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.”

Men Persons Real Matter Half Blood Poet Shapes Real Men Real Person Sissy

Author:Charles Bukowski