Poet Quote by César Vallejo Download Open image ““Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.”” — César Vallejo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poet
“So many revolutionaries are intellectuals, a class of people whose aspirations tend to run ahead of their capabilities. Just” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“There has been no major revolution in modern history without intellectuals; conversely there has been no major counterrevolutionary movement without intellectuals. Intellectuals have been… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
“There are 2 types of revolutionaries: those bred through a rich education, and those bred through a poor education. But there is truly only… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.” — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
“We have to live a life that is more revolutionary than that of the revolutionaries.” — Brother Andrew Copy Share Image
“those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.” — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.” — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
“There are desires to return, to love, to not disappear, and there are desires to die, fought by two opposing waters that have never… — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
“Llegue hasta la pared de enfrente de la vida. Y me parece que he tenido siempre a la mano esta pared.” — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
“Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.” — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
“The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.” — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and… — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
“man is, truly, an animal, / and yet, on turning round, he hits me in the head with his sadness” — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
“Black Stone on a White Stone" I will die in Paris with a rainstorm, on a day I already remember, I will die in… — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
