#poet

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. ↗

— Simone Veil

#beautiful #fixing #his #poet #produces

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#simplicity #age

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#poetry #humor

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have. ↗

— Kay Ryan

#poetry #humor

Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away. Umber sniffed. "One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap. ↗

— P.W. Catanese

#poetry #humor

The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.... ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#humor #poetry #humor

There Are No Believers in This World: There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers. ↗

— Sharon Esther Lampert

#philosopher #poet #education

People differ to such a degree they agree on nothing, Except death that is, and even on that they disagree. Some say the soul goes on after the death of the body While others claim the soul, with the body, dies too. ↗

— Mutannabi

#education #news #death

Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know much about him--except instructors and their hapless students. ↗

— Henry Blake Fuller

#educational-system #poets #education

When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds – like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#poets #work #writers #writing #equality