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Letter "P" » Poets
«Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.»
«Let the poet always walk thus»
Author: Alfred Victor Vigny
| About:
Poets
«Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.»
«In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.»
Author: Muriel Rukeyser
(Writer)
| About:
Poetry,
Poets,
Punishment,
Speech
| Keywords:
free speech, penalty, poems
«It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.»
«He is the poet of solitude.»
Author: Richard L. Coe
| About:
Poets
«It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back»
«If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain»
«Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Humanity,
Logic,
Mankind,
Mathematics,
Morality,
Philosophy,
Poets
| Keywords:
contend, Histories, moral philosophy, natural history, natural philosophy, rhetoric, witty
«He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Character,
Confidence,
Courage,
Life,
Poets,
Risk,
Writers
| Keywords:
After life, come to life, dare, Get A Life, lives, not, On Writing, others, poetry, realise, that, they, The Others, This Is Your Life, To be written, write, write of, write out
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