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“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.”

Simple Company Dangerous Danger Poet Twenties Folks Saving Prophet Savings Swindling

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.”

Poet Believer Prophet Sublime Grammar Disturbing Credulity Omission Bad Grammar

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

People Death Land Poet Honor Stranger Prophet Death And Dying Dying Death Near Death Stranger In A Strange Land Someone Who Is Dying

Author:Khalil Gibran

“A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.”

Men May Poet Worship Prophet Conceit

Book:The Blithedale Romance

Source: The Blithedale Romance

“In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.”

Way Law Literature Differences Poet Ancient Prophet

Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely.”

Source: A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism

“Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.”

Men Emotion Vision Subjects Poet Prophet Solitary Dominion Herds Thoughts And Emotions Solitary Man

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.”

“Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.”

Ifs Men Age Nations Waiting Failing Possibility Poet Mountain Highest Ideals Crosses Plant Come Up Immortality Realms Prophet Climbs Dreamer Impatient

Author:J. G. Holland

“Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.”

Men Divine Poet Philosopher Witty Excellent Prophet Etc Melancholy Bees

Author:Aristotle

“Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.”

Book Poet Philosopher Prophet Take Time Good Book Seers

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.”

Knows Mind May Doe Art States Use Order Speak Known Divine Poet Holy Ministers Prophet Theme Speakers Priceless Unconsciousness Holy Prophet

Author:Plato

“Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.”

Inspiration Understanding Talent Poet Fine Prophet Seers Fine Things

Book:Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

Source: Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo