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Letter "T" » the Poets
«We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.»
Author: Elizabeth Drew
(Writer)
| Keywords:
and others, continuous, frustration, haunted, inescapable, moods, release, the Poets, unlooked-for, watched
«We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words»
«Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid of rest, carries his own accuser in his breast»
«The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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cheese, cheeses, mysteriously, poets, silent, subject, subjecting, the Poets
«The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Medicine,
Poetry
| Keywords:
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«Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles and Aeneas»
«To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Disappointment
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Delicious, employment, futurity, labyrinth, labyrinths, perplex, perplexing, the Poets, thicken
«Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time»
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