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“SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.”

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Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.”

Wells Eye Jobs Used Artist Turns Imagination Mistake Brain Talent Poet Politician Cooking Fighter Cooks Empires Prize Assets Cleverness Builder

Author:Anne Ellis

“The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost faith in social work, schoolteachers who have lost faith in teaching and, for all I know, policemen who have lost faith in policing and poets who have lost faith in poetry. It's a condition of faith that it gets lost from time to time, or at least mislaid.”

People Knows World Faith Lost Social Teaching Conditions Poet Politician Workers Social Work Policemen Social Worker Lost Faith

Book:A Taste for Death

Source: A Taste for Death

“We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.”

Ifs Want Writing Poet Politician Concerned Paint Singers Painter

Book:This Matter of Culture

Source: This Matter of Culture

“Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”

Inspirational Heart Hands Dies Literature Nations Born Poet Politician

Book:Iqbal, the poet of tomorrow

Source: Iqbal, the poet of tomorrow

“I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't just hear the politicians and the military leaders. You have to hear from the taxi drivers. You have to hear from the painters. You have to hear from the poets. You have to hear from the school teachers and the filmmakers and musicians.”

“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

“Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can contribute to the political space. JFK had this quote about how if more politicians knew poetry and more poets knew about politics, the world would be a better place. Being attentive to the things that add meaning to our lives alongside politics will help us inform our politics with the values that really do make America great.”

World Helping Political Values Poet Politician

Author:Peter Buttigieg