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Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
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Terrance Hayes
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Born:
Nov 18
,
1971
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From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Alienation
Borders
Crossing
Poetry
Poets
Writers
Tension
Between
Beyond
Narratives
Always
Been
Exile
Encounters
Familiar
Beginnings
Wandering
Literature
Epic
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Epic Poetry
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Novels
Based
Basic
Assimilation
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
Eric Burdon
Day
Peace
Women
World
Remember
Made
Men
Men And Women
Preaching
Live
Trenches
Those
Out
Kinder
Memorial
Memorial Day
Only
Poets
Writers
Also
Came
Were
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Place
Who
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
Wisdom
You
Kind
Find
Poetry
Poets
Inspiration
Prophets
Write
Deliver
Instinct
Knowing
Messages
Without
Least
Sublime
Decided
Mean
Who
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
You
Technology
Vote
Science
Fight
Culture
Innovation
Once
Ways
Those
Promote
Embrace
Poets
Journalists
Concept
Scientifically
Scientists
Literate
Meaning
Meaning Of
Communities
Engineers
Who
Even
Actor
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Muhammad Iqbal
Politicians
Born
Poets
Prosper
Hearts
Hands
Die
Nations
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Love
Heart
Poets
Nobody
How
How Much
Hold
Much
Measured
Even
Ever
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
Viktor E. Frankl
Life
Love
Wisdom
Truth
Time
Me
Man
Love Is
Song
Thought
My Life
First
Final
Saw
Poets
Highest
First Time
Ultimate
Goal
Which
Proclaimed
Aspire
Many
Thinkers
Set
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cheese
Silent
Poets
Been
Subject
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Socrates
Only
Poets
Gods
Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.
Louie Schwartzberg
You
Change
Poets
Could
Caterpillar
Greatest
Always
Been
Artists
Next
Moment
Butterfly
Symbol
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