“Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” PeopleWritingCharacterStoriesVisionSawsPoetAngelAssumingSongwritersAutobiographyMarble Book:Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile Source: Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile
“Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.” MenBookStarsLibertySawsSeaPoetFitEdgesThinker Author:Van Morrison
“Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.” ShouldBookBeautifulStepsSawsPoetGrayMinorsOscarsPublishMarginsMeadowsUnwrittenWilde Author:Ada Leverson
“Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.” IfsMenSawsHe ManPoetDignityCollectivesNormConvincingBrutesRepressionSamenessDeviants Author:Richard Sennett
“I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew up feeling very comfortable around books. Also, Ireland is a country which has honoured its writers and poets, so when someone says they wanted to be a writer, its not mocked or looked down upon.” BookCountryFeelingsHomeWantedParentTakenSawsPoetGrewComfortableGrew UpLibraryIrelandBookshopsWriters And Poets Author:Michael Scott
“He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.” EyeFallSawsPoetBoundsBridgesImmortalityToilSigh Author:William Watson
“A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.” MenWayFirstsChildrenTwoSawsDyingPoetTwo Ways Author:James A. Michener
“There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland. We have young people like Eduardo Corral, who won the Yale Younger Poets Award. José Antonio Rodriguez, published by Luis Rodriguez. But there are only a few of us who are paid attention to in New York. There are legions behind us who are not.” PeopleStillsYoungBehindsAttentionSawsNew YorkPoetPaidExtraordinaryAwardsYaleLegionAntonioPortlandGina Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.” AgeCoursesSawsModernPoetIntellectualTraditionPhilosopherIslamicPakistanAdjustmentHeirsSynthesisAdherenceModern AgeExponentsIslamic Society Book:Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989 Source: Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989
“Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.” WorldIdeasForceSocialWatchesSawsHeardObjectsTaughtColorPoetTheoryBirthBlindIntuitionExcellentVisualsProfessorsSpheresGiftedLecturesAccuracy Author:Thomas Hardy