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“Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.”

Poetry Poet Terrible Praise Merit Priests Terrible Times

Author:Jose Marti

“All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose, when showing forth the praise of God.”

Mind Art Light Beautiful Spirit Purpose Sun Produce Inspire Poet Fine Holy Highest Musician Art Is Praise Harmony Shining Painter Holy Spirit Prose Poetic Fulfilling Marvellous Shining Through

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.”

Firsts Poet Praise Rate Queens Adequate Chimera

Book:Tarr

Source: Tarr

“You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.”

Ifs Thinking Pay Poet Praise Admire Pardon Pardon Me

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid.”

Writing Has Beens Whole Song Pay Lord Too Much Poet Hundred Praise Immortality Pounds Tribes Statesmen Objections Spenser

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.”

Found Literature Answers Too Much Poet Musician Bird Praise Agree Tongue Interpretation Bells Echoes Rhyme Utterance Inaccessible Inarticulate Mimicry

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.”

World Reason Poetry Poet Praise Faults Splendor

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.”

World Language Prayer Poet Broken Ambition Clothes Praise Dresses Remains Profound Extraordinary Heroic Delicate Honorable Gracious Eloquent Broken World

Author:David St. John

“Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.”

“The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.”

Mind Together Spirit Poet Highest All Things Praise Exploits

Book:The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods

Source: The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods

“Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.”

People Want Firsts States Figures Students Poet Praise Shock Graduates Public Figures Graduate Students

Author:Erica Jong

“Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.”

Men Kind Doe Art Action Speak Divine Poet Like You Praise Inspired Noble Verses Muse Epic Strain Hymns Like Yourself

Book:Plato: The Complete Works including 31 Books (illustrated)

Source: Plato: The Complete Works including 31 Books (illustrated)