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“All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.”

People May Said Nations Common Race Produce Poet Accounts Patient Practicals Common Sense Paradox Strain Explorers Adventurer Shopkeepers

Author:Arthur Bryant

“Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.”

Poet Practicals Superstitions Superstitious Practical Life

Book:Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

“Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.”

Men May Said Soul Seems Nations Vision Poet Direct Practicals Display Vulgar Statesmen Statesmanship Sagacity

Book:The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed

Source: The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed

“A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.”

Beautiful Hope Women Poet Approach Practicals Mates Tenderness Savages Beautiful Women Eloquence Taming

Book:Culture, Behavior, Beauty

Source: Culture, Behavior, Beauty

“I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period a line comes from) this is almost paralysing. In America, in University, we read - what? - T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, that is where we began. Shakespeare flaunted in the background. I'm not sure I agree with this, but I think that' for the young poet, the writing poet, it is not quite so frightening to go to university in America as it is in England, for these reasons.”

Thinking Writing Reason Whole America Young Lines Knowing Poet Periods Criticism England Agree Historical University Practicals Backgrounds Not Sure Frightening Emphasis Dylan Eliot Yeats

Author:Sylvia Plath

“I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean, my local midwife has taught me how to keep bees. Well, she can't understand anything I write. And I find myself liking her, may I say, more than most poets. And among my friends I find people who know all about boats or know all about certain sports, or how to cut somebody open and remove an organ. I'm fascinated by this mastery of the practical.”

“As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.”

Bits Teach Air Poet Practicals

Author:Sylvia Plath