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To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is… — John Burroughs
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on… — Unknown Author
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far… — Stephen Spender
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a… — Jonathan Swift
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with… — Hugh Miller
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him,… — Khalil Gibran
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with… — James Elroy Flecker
As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence… — Miyamoto Musashi
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of… — William Wordsworth
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque… — Fulton J. Sheen
To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground. — Vanna Bonta
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past… — Fred Bodsworth
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to… — Albert Einstein
Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities… — Thomas Berry
A good poet's made as well as born. — Ben Jonson
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and… — Aberjhani
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of… — June Jordan
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It… — Olive Schreiner
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just… — Stevie Nicks
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them,… — Freddie Mercury
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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