Long Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Long Poet Poetry Satire
For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not a true… — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“In the land of poetry commentary, you will encounter those who take poetry too lightly, and those who take poetry too seriously. The former… — Jasper Sole Copy Share Image
The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. — Catullus Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
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