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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

“A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.”

Poetry Poet Checks Priests Satirical Layman

Book:The Works of John Dryden, Vol.2: Top English Literature

Source: The Works of John Dryden, Vol.2: Top English Literature

“Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?”

Way Heart Self Inspiration Speak Humility Poet Devotion Priests

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.”

Men Made Different Difficult Differences Environment Sea Society Poet Type Soldier Ass Variety Priests Lions Sheep Sailor Crow Statesmen Workmen Calves Zoology

Author:Honore de Balzac

“When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.”

Men Poet Musician Fundamentals Medicine Determine Missions Dancer Priests Swings Existential Fulfilling Requirements

Book:The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

Source: The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

“But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love, O perfect life in perfect labor writ, O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, -- What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse, What least defect or shadow of defect, What rumor, tattled by an enemy, Of inference loose, what lack of grace Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's -- Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee, Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?”

Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier

“I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.”

Believe Heart Jesus I Believe Bits Powerful Imagine Poet Storytelling Priests Parables

Author:Uwem Akpan

“The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.”

“I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov, Philip Larkin, and the British poets who were imported through that important anthology put together by Alvarez - and those would include Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes. And I think these poets gave me assurance that there were other ways to write besides the rather involuted style of high modernism whose high priests were Pound, Eliot and Stevens, and Crane perhaps.”

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Author:Billy Collins

“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”

Knows Three Poet Respect Dignity Soldier Worthy Priests Poetic

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.”

Men Ideas Divine Poet Intellectual Sacred Greek Fixed Spokes Priests Origin Of Life Intellectual Life

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses