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“Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.”

Art Poet Equal Regard Painter License

Author:Horace

“A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future, both conceived in the same spirit as the above-mentioned interpretation in natural sciences. Anarchy, therefore, appears as a constituent part of the new philosophy, and that is why Anarchists come in contact, on so many points, with the greatest thinkers and poets of the present day.”

“All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.”

Reality Imagination Common Rich Poet Picks Tasks Regard Agreement Surprising Thread Fabric Colorful Dense All The Best Primacy Wild Imagination

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.”

“Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.”

Giving Littles Persons Action Taken Events Poet Regard Contrary Admire Immortality Historian Reverence Our Thoughts Achilles Aeneas

Book:The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal'

Source: The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal'

“There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is- the poet is born, not made.”

Made Born Poet Fit Regard Latin Quotations Translations

Book:How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version

Source: How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version

“This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700, 800 years - Persian poets and philosophers haven't said anything different with regard to experiencing life in the moment, as opposed to the belief of permanence.”

Years Said Different Country Moments Belief Havens Poet Buddhism Concepts Regard Philosopher Permanence Persian

Author:Abbas Kiarostami