Aristotle Quotes
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.
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A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
