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“"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.”

Ifs Knows Persons Said Would Be Beautiful Science Poet One Day Manage Sane Rainbow

Book:Little Stories

Source: Little Stories

“A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.”

Ifs Knows Writing Looks Said Enough Whole Universe Poet Understood Wine Glasses Wine Glass

Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

“There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.”

Said Voice Poet Rings Thrown Bells Curfew

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.”

People May Said Nations Common Race Produce Poet Accounts Patient Practicals Common Sense Paradox Strain Explorers Adventurer Shopkeepers

Author:Arthur Bryant

“If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast and as someone said, "If you're going to hang me, you mustn't expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution."”

Ifs Men Said States Feelings Able Natural Poet Tone Breakfast Execution Accustomed Intimidating Helplessness

Author:Randall Jarrell

“I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Giving Firsts May Said Hard Strong Deals Poet Genius Faults Mistaken Can Not Inclination Liable Propensity Giving Way

Book:Poems: Pastoral poetry, and An essay on criticism

Source: Poems: Pastoral poetry, and An essay on criticism

“Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?”

Thinking Said Behinds Poet Kings Army Deeds Exploits Stirring Boiling Peeping Agamemnon

Book:Plutarch's Morals

Source: Plutarch's Morals

“I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat."”

Wells Said Beautiful Mother Land Poet Waste Prize Significance Schemes Nobel Nobel Prize Great Poet Prerogative Waste Land Overcoat

Author:Alan Bennett

“The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.”

Made Said Imagine Player Poet Civilization Tennis Judged Decline Tennis Player

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.”

Said Father Careers Poet Decided Structure Boring Suitable Pension Boring Things

Author:Sue Townsend

“Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.”

Thinking Said Poet Comfort Empty Philosopher Great Poet

Book:The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

Source: The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

“Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."”

Said Moving Universe Born Generations Dying Poet Buddhism Eternity Multitudes Molecules Great American Walt

Author:Frederick Lenz