“Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.” ArtistReligiousLandPoetSaintLawyerJournalistProfessorsBusinessmanSailorStatesmenGangstersParasites Author:William C. Brown
“Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.” KnowsMenMeanWould BeAbleReligiousFictionPoetLimitsEternalPunishmentFixedWoeResistingMenace Book:Lucretius On the Nature of Things Source: Lucretius On the Nature of Things
“The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.” LostFunChurchReligiousLossPoetInfinityGreat Religious Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.” ReligiousJusticeDarknessPoetCreaturesWoundsBillionsOne TimeDriftingReligious Experience Author:Graham Hawkes
“I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.” ThinkingHumansPersonsUseReligiousHuman BeingsResponsibilityIdentityPoetActivistVotersReligious Person Author:John Trudell
“The manager-leader of the future should combine in one personality the robust, realistic quality of the man of action with the insight of the artist, the religious leader, the poet, who explains man to himself. The man of action alone or the man of contemplation alone will not be enough; these two qualities together are required.” MenShouldTwoEnoughActionTogetherArtistReligiousQualityLeaderHe ManPoetPersonalityInsightManagersContemplationRealisticRobustReligious Leaders Author:David Lilienthal
“In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe it has always been that way. Maybe the only way he or she can be acknowledged is to be connected with some movement, be it religious or political.” IfsWayI CanUseProblemAmericaPoliticalArtistReligiousMovementParticularPoetConnectedDumb Author:Gerald Stern
“I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.” KindFeelingsReligiousPoetRefuseAdmire Author:Tony Kushner