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Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next. Louie Schwartzberg

Change, Moment, Butterfly, You, Always

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates

Wisdom, Poetry, You, Find, Without, Kind

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science, Technology, Culture, Innovation

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. Jhumpa Lahiri

Poetry, Literature, Always, Tension

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. - T. S. Eliot

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot

Poetry, Mature, Immature, Steal, Imitate

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Love, Love Is, Wisdom, Truth, Time

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. Muhammad Iqbal

Die, Hands, Born, Politicians, Hearts

The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse. Dorothea Dix

Green, Remember, Know, Lovely, Soil, Our

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields. Steve Jobs

Science, Best, Great, People, Amazing

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. Thomas Aquinas

Philosophy, Way, Wonder, Big, Because

Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. Billy Joel

Life, Perception, Musicians, Always

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry, Silent, Cheese, Been, Subject

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries. Tom Hodgkinson

Losing, You, Creative, Sitting, Process

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. Dennis Potter

Children, Poetry, Stop, Reach, Puberty

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods. - Socrates

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods. Socrates

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Aristotle

Art, Lies, Who, Taught, Other, Telling

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script. Jess Walter

Book, Pilot, Financial, Seeing, Film

There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Life, Soul, Poetry, My Life, Suffering

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry, World, Legislators

You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss. Tom Brokaw

Kiss, Effort, You, Universe, Search

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sunshine, Hill, House, Ghosts, Old, Many

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

Man, Men, Great, Greatness, Great Man

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. Stephen King

God, Daily, People, Think, View, Speak

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live. Eric Burdon

Women, Day, Men, Peace, Live, World

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars. Janine di Giovanni

Beautiful, City, People, Living, Side

Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem. Louis MacNeice

Good, Poetry, Lie, Unity, Eye, End

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