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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

Technology, Science, Culture, Innovation

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, Greatest

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, Beyond

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, Crazy, Tears, Friends, Artist

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

Hands, Die, Born, Politicians, Hearts

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, Knowing, Find, Mean

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, Suffering, Poetry, Listening

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

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

Poetry, Immature, Mature, 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, Wisdom, Time, Truth, Man

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

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

Wonder, Philosophy, Way, Awe, Myths, Big

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

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

World, Poetry, Legislators

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. Jean Cocteau

Tie, Handwriting, Up, Differently, Then

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, Enjoy, Working, Things

Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in this age of Trump as President, alternative facts, falsehoods becoming truth at the send of a tweet, it's vital that spoken word poetry does its job helping to keep folks 'woke' and not numb or shut down. Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Age, Job, Truth, Beginning, Poetry, Down

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

Best, Science, Great, People, Amazing

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

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods. Socrates

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. Heraclitus

I Am, Me, Professor, Little, Made, Am

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? Richard P. Feynman

Beauty, Stars, Science, Desert, Night

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions. J. D. Salinger

Weather, Emotions, Always, Things

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca. Patti Smith

Childhood, Me, Paris, Dream, Go, Artists

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. Anne Sexton

Moderation, Just, Saints, Nor

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, Joy, Words, Enjoy, Language, You

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. Herbert Read

Power, Culture, Quality, Wealth, Worth

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind. Ameen Rihani

History, Age, Truth, Great, Day, Mind

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, Soil, Daisy, Well

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