Asks Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

— J. G. Holland

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

— Edward Young

I'm the stuff men are made of!

— John Wayne

Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

— Joyce Brothers

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.

— Robert Jordan

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

— Allen Tate

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

— John Ruskin

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having…

— Charles Dudley Warner

Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

— John Desmond Bernal