Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
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Oh, FREEDOM! Thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou; one m
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Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.
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He was then in his fifty fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
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Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape.. If we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
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Poets generally love cats because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their fieldwork among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best orderpoetry the best words in the best order.
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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.
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
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Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
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Immature poets imitate mature poets steal.
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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose
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Music is the purest form of art.. Therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music.. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.
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The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
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There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.
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