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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Muhammad Iqbal
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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
Always
,
Next
,
Symbol
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Muhammad Iqbal
Hands
,
Die
,
Prosper
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
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry
,
World
,
Legislators
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
Ways
,
Concept
,
Journalists
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
Borders
,
Been
,
Exile
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
,
Artist
,
Tears
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Socrates
Gods
,
Only
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
Always
,
Going
,
Accurate
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
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
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
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Christopher Morley
Always
,
Surely
,
Novelists
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Jean Cocteau
Tie
,
Differently
,
Unravel
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mirror
,
Everybody
,
Took
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
Olive Schreiner
Love
,
Always
,
Monks
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack Obama
Friendship
,
More
,
Carefully
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.
Sarah Kay
Storytelling
,
Say
,
Had
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
,
Thought
,
My Life
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot
Poetry
,
Mature
,
Steal
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poetry
,
Silent
,
Been
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman
Great
,
Audiences
,
Must
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Hannah Arendt
Love
,
Mistake
,
Which
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
Wealth
,
Military Power
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. Lovecraft
Dreams
,
False
,
Travellers
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
City
,
Very
,
Rockets
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