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“Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.”

Poetry Poet Terrible Praise Merit Priests Terrible Times

Author:Jose Marti

“Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.”

People Men Soul Poetry Wish Behinds He Man Worthy Oil Merit Dread Rhyme Applause Cedars Herring Time To Leave Frankincense

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.”

May Art Poetry Literature Particular Aids Devotion Artistic Merit

Author:C. S. Lewis

“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”

Persons Poetry Tragedy Deny Merit Prose Annoying Fewer

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“The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.”

Mean Stills Form Poetry Understanding Merit Association Imaginative Conductor

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit "God eternally geometrizes."”

World Truth Spirit Poetry Religious Mathematics Deny Merit Formulas Fewer

Author:David Eugene Smith

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