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All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65154<![CDATA[Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65072<![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64913<![CDATA[I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64904<![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63602<![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard; To carry nature lengths unknown ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46857<![CDATA[There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46858<![CDATA[They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46859<![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46860<![CDATA[Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46861<![CDATA[He koude songes make and well endite. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46852<![CDATA[Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46853<![CDATA[I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. [Lat., Adhue neminem cognovi poetam, qui sibi ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46854<![CDATA[Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46855<![CDATA[And spare the poet for his subject's sake. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46856<![CDATA[A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46850<![CDATA[Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46851<![CDATA[One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he. "So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46846<![CDATA[Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46847<![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do, To make a poet excellent, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46848<![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample, Catullus scarcely has ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46849<![CDATA["There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46843<![CDATA[O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46844<![CDATA[God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46845<![CDATA[Singing and rejoicing, As aye since time began, The dying earth's last poet Shall be the earth's ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46837<![CDATA[Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46838<![CDATA[A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46839<![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat., Heureux qui, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46840<![CDATA[Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46841<![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours! For all are happy and rich and great ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842<![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46832<![CDATA[The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46833<![CDATA[A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46834<![CDATA[The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46835<![CDATA[As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46836<![CDATA[Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46829<![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46830<![CDATA[A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46831<![CDATA[Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20593<![CDATA[He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5618