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“He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.”

Writing Age Poetry Names Poet Sacred

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“When poets - write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.”

Writing Poet Sacred Preparation Meals Thoughtful Serving Profane

Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

“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.”

“Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, philosophers, poets, and scholars. Wine in moderation is an integral part of our culture, heritage and gracious way of life.”

Way Has Beens Culture Century Poet Civilization Sacred Wine Philosopher Civilized Heritage Scholar Moderation Gracious Statesmen Beverages

Author:Robert Mondavi

“Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even the poets - so purely and reverently and admirably expressed that I can't help believing the author's hearts were moved by some divine power. And perhaps the spirit of Christ is more widespread than we understand, and the company of the saints includes many not on our calendar.”

Source: The Colloquies of Erasmus

“In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred learning, their great statesmen and soldiers, their natural philosophers, their historians and their poets.”

“If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.”

Ifs Doe I Can My Own Influence Poet Sacred Hearing Honestly

Author:Grace Cavalieri

“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