Brilliant Quote by Orison Swett Marden

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

— John Keats

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility…

— Ben Jonson

“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write,…

— W. H. Auden

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

— John Drinkwater

While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted…

— Ludwig von Mises

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all…

— Plato

“Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had”

— Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor…

— Albert Pike

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against…

— Samuel Smiles