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All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that. — Enya
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the… — Jane Austen
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups. — P.G. Wodehouse
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. — Umberto Eco
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. — Ambrose Bierce
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton
The poet is a madman lost in adventure. — Paul Verlaine
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Painters and poets have liberty to lie. — Robert Burns
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. — Carol Ann Duffy
Poets wish to profit or to please. — Horace
Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. — Keith Crown
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. — Philip Pullman
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. — Heinrich Heine
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn… — Horace
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… — Samuel Johnson
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this… — William Blake
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the… — John Burroughs
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is… — Claude Bernard
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon

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