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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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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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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.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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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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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.
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I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.
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I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.
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It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
