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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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

Next, Always, Symbol

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

Concept, Journalists, Ways

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

Poetry, Instinct, Least

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

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

Poetry, Mature, Steal

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

Been, Borders, Exile

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

Die, Hands, Prosper

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, Been

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

Big, Fables, Poetic

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

Great, Greatness, Rarer

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

Love, My Life, Thought

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

Doing, Other, Been

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

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods. Socrates

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Walt Whitman

Great, Must, Audiences

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

My Life, Reason, Blank

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. Plato

Wise, Which, Utter

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Tyrants, Russia, Worst

The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words. Octavio Paz

Sound, More, Than

I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough. Russell Smith

Gardening, Tears, Artist

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. Jason Silva

Future, Need, Scientist

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald

Love, How Much, Ever

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. Christopher Morley

Always, Surely, Novelists

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work. Dylan Thomas

Work, Sometimes, Will

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. Rita Dove

Love, Process, Discover

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Crazy People, Holy

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

Through, Rather, Crucial

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. Harold Bloom

Give, Inheritance, Them

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