“If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.” IfsWishAudiencePoetIndustryAmbitionSakeArguingLecturesCrowdedCitations Book:Hippocrates Source: Hippocrates
“The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?” IfsGivingHas BeensReasonConditionsMankindPoetSingingSakeMiserableDepravedKettlesBandages Author:W. H. Auden
“The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.” HeartCarePoetAmbitionCriticsSakeReputationPoeticStoicismLove Poetry Book:The Brownings' Correspondence Source: The Brownings' Correspondence
“O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.” HeartPoetryOpinionBreakPoetSakePublic OpinionApplauseKnaves Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.” MadePoetryLiteratureLostLinesDealsFireFivePoetThousandForgivingRateSakeAbsurdSmokeRighteousObscurity Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.” ThinkingDifferencesExampleParticularPoetSakeFormerLatterPointingProceduresIllustrationAllegory Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?” MenWantShowsWantedArtistChristPoetMusicianFemaleMalesSakeGenderSingersDefinedCall MeCuratorWoman Artist Author:Patti Smith