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The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a… — G. H. Hardy
A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only… — Yo-Yo Ma
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the… — Walt Whitman
Creativity has three layers; the ultimate is the mystic: he lives in a climate of creativity. The poet, once in a while, brings some treasures… — Rajneesh
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott
God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer… — Rajneesh
God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been there. Maybe even… — Rajneesh
There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many dancers, many singers… — Rajneesh
I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a… — Roger Zelazny
But maybe it's up the hills or under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you… — Paul Engle
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. — Harold Bloom
Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement… — Robert Fitzgerald
The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors. — Yosa Buson
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which… — Lord Chesterfield
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular… — Robert Fulton
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. — Vicente Aleixandre
I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. — Aristide Maillol
When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel. — Andre Soltner
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a… — Lucian
Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength. — Pindar
Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet… — Henry David Thoreau
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are… — Mary Midgley
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. — Philip James Bailey

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