Poetry Quote by Frederick Smock Download Open image ““Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.”” — Frederick Smock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.” — Vladimir Nabokov 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
“Blame the poets. It’s easier to stir people to rebellion if they think they’re on the side of a demigod or some chosen one.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The smart tyrant flatters the people with words,while with deeds he destroys them.” — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“History is a cookbook. The tyrants are chefs. The philosophers write menus. The priests are waiters. The military men are bouncers. The singing you… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.” — A Gentlemen Copy Share Image
“Wouldn’t it be more important to teach the least powerful? To help them make the most of what they do have? Should we teach… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.” — Lady Shelley Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris 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
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke 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
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
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