Aristotle Quotes
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.Aristotle
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman -
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde -
It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
Samuel Goldwyn -
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde -
I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
Ada Lovelace
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson -
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
Harry Browne -
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
Vernor Vinge -
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
Rainn Wilson -
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot -
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Madame de Stael -
So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.
Ogden Nash -
Mobs have passions, not brains.
Dan Simmons -
The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
Lorna Luft -
I'm a real bath addict. I could sit in a bath and soak for days on end, and you'll never see me again. It's my easiest, nicest thing. So if you're giving me something extra to do, an extra step to make bathtime last longer, then I'll do it.
Poppy Delevingne -
I am very Latino in everything I am and I do, but there's a part of me that's also something else. I'm reflective of the way this country's gonna be in the next 40 years. More multicultural is what we'll see.
Jimmy Smits
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I always made the joke that I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Warner Brothers first put 'Tusk' on and listened to it in their boardroom as a follow-up to 'Rumours.'
Lindsey Buckingham -
When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.
Cecelia Ahern -
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.
Vinoba Bhave -
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
Aristotle