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“It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.”

Simple Company Dangerous Danger Poet Twenties Folks Saving Prophet Savings Swindling

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.”

Poetry Simple Poet Declaring

Author:Billy Cannon

“Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.”

Country Age Humanity Simple Share Poet Court Inheritance Being Thankful Excluded Great Poet

Book:The North American Review

Source: The North American Review

“I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.”

Long Night Simple Poet Boxes All Night Simple Life

Author:Anne Sexton

“Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.”

Way Art Two Real Song Wealth Simple Influence Fashion Poet Drama Thousand Size Stability Ireland Spares Ruined Castles Limerick

Book:The feminine eye

Source: The feminine eye

“S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.”

“Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, "If science can't do something therefore religion can.”

Ifs Writing Mean Simple Practice Poet Logical Sonnet Fallacy Logical Fallacy

Author:Richard Dawkins

“To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.”

Stills Poetry Simple Poet Genius Kings Succeed Crafts Mask Weed Fiery Simple Words

Book:Emerson's Literary Criticism

Source: Emerson's Literary Criticism

“The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.”

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean.”

“The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.”

People Has Beens Made Care Justice Sin Simple Effort Class Written One Thing Subjects Poet Treated Reform Pounds Good People Rhetoric Essayists Scapegoat Orators

Author:Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

“Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago.”

“Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.”

Giving Persons Play Political Asks Stuff Lines Simple Party Audience Poet Reflection Standing Blame Excuse Bunch Opposition Poetry Is Fascism Fascists You Like It Good Poetry Time Poetry

Author:John Cusack

“What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture.”

Want Persons Artist Stars Realizing Simple Poet Directors Creator Producers Artistic

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic, poet, scholar, and activist. His luminous presence and the simple, compassionate clarity of his writings have touched countless lives.”

Writing Simple Teacher Poet Masters West Clarity Buddhist Combination Beloved Touched Activist Compassionate Scholar Mystic Luminous Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

Author:Joanna Macy

“Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.”

Should Order Asks Wish Simple Poet Mathematics Physicist Grammar License Pronunciation

Author:Richard P. Feynman