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literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
poet invention conscious
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme. C. S. Lewis
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry.
poet companion whole-life
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. David McCullough
poetry qualified
Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. Louis MacNeice
poet
I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling. Jessica White
poet represent size sound thus universal
The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poet true
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver. Eugenio Montale
poetry fruit mute
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Archibald MacLeish
poet clock repeats
A small poet repeats himself like a clock. Austin O'Malley
priests delicate heard
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. Alfred Lord Tennyson
priests wanted
I wanted passionately to be a priest. A. N. Wilson
priests judas judas-priest
Back in 1994 there was no Judas Priest. Glenn Tipton
priests
New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large. John Milton
priests electric sermons
Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric! Johnny Vegas
priests lost traders
Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species. George Carlin
priests personification falsehood
The priest is the personification of falsehood. Giuseppe Garibaldi
priests wells associates
I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well. Hilaire Belloc