“The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat.” MenIdeasPoliticsWisePoetJudgingRidiculousAbsurdMathematicianJuryLegislatorsInconsistentHereditary Author:Thomas Paine
“For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.” IfsNeedsMadeSelfPlayPoliticsEconomyPoetMastersToolsTasksMovedSlaveServantLiberalismStatuesAssemblyCraftsmanBiddingTripods Author:Aristotle
“Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?” WarPoetryPoliticsTakenPoetTransformedBloody Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.” WayPoetryPoliticsFeltPoet Author:Kristin Hunter