All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
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"The Poet & The City", p. 84Wystan Hugh Auden
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Those who present directly and immediately the new forms and symbols are the artists — the dramatists, the musicians, the painters, the dancers, the poets, and those poets of the religious sphere we call saints. They portray the new symbols in the form of images — poetic, aural, plastic, or dramatic, as the case may be. They live out their imaginations.
Rollo May
There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know.William Cowper
Those golden times
And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings,
And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose.William Cowper
Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.
Matt Sanchez
Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
Fernando Pessoa
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