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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
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Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
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Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
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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.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths.
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
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