"To a poet nothing can be useless" — Samuel Johnson
"To a poet nothing can be useless"
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until…
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases…
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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