Accomplished Quote by George Henry Lewes Download Open image “A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.” — George Henry Lewes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accomplished May Poet Poetry
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than… — William Wordsworth Copy Share
A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities.… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven. — Laozi Copy Share Image
... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word out there to make it a good word in a big way by putting it in big letters on the stage, and especially because she was quoting the African novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who said, "We… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar… — Amy Ridenour Copy Share
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