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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

“All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.”

Ifs Has Beens Gone Poet Wings Originality Feathers Stolen Countrymen Plagiarism Milton Indebted

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought”

States Poetry Poet Wings Flying Unhappiness Verses

Book:The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser

Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser

“It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.”

World Doe Ends Earth Evil Church Powerful Struggle Fire Violence Mankind Poet Devil Hatred Wings Expected Vain Preacher Repent End Of The World Lament Evil World

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.”

Poetry Song Sides Voice Tears Poet Madness Wings Breasts

Book:Poems and new poems

Source: Poems and new poems

“Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because science either walks or runs but art has wings to fly!”

Has Beens Art Said Running Science Walks Poet Masters Wings Wings To Fly

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.”

Inspiration Numbers Poet Bird Wings Iron Pens Now And Then Eagles Geese Slumber Plunder Metallic

Author:John Adams