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“He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.”

Giving Names Imagination Study Sea Poet Wings Rely Artificial Imitation Julius

Author:Horace

“A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.”

Love Is Sea Figures Poet Lays

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“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.”

Men Book Stars Liberty Saws Sea Poet Fit Edges Thinker

Author:Van Morrison

“According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.”

Men Made Different Difficult Differences Environment Sea Society Poet Type Soldier Ass Variety Priests Lions Sheep Sailor Crow Statesmen Workmen Calves Zoology

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?”

Knows Should Mind Has Beens Sea Subjects Poet Moon Contemplation Sailing Bark Soothing Azure

Author:William Gilmore Simms

“It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.”

Men Forever Sea Poet Criticism Critics Wander Regions Old Man Enchantment

Book:Select Poetical Works

Source: Select Poetical Works

“For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.”

Sea Poet Ordinary Oblivion

Book:So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews

Source: So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews

“In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.”

Littles Said Women Sea Poet Rose Apples Honey Clay Handful Lilies Dove Serpent Persian

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.”

Men Littles War Hands Night Nations Sea Security Poet Eternal Profession Thieves Distrust Wisest Parables Elementals Amity War Love

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.”

Seems Artist Sea Poet Perception Musician Contemporary Versions Painter Officials Accurate Contemporary Life

Author:Billy Joel