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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

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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

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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

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

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. Barack Obama

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot

Imitate Immature Steal Poets Mature

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. Thomas Aquinas

Big Lover Philosopher Philosophers Philosophy Way Alike Fables Poetic Poets Myths Arises Bound Because His His Way Wonder Being Awe

Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. Billy Joel

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Aristotle

Art Other Telling Telling Lies Lies Poets Chiefly Taught Who Homer

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. David Knopfler

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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. Jean Cocteau

Draw Unravel Poets Tie Up Handwriting Again Then Differently

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? Richard P. Feynman

Science Atoms Beauty Stars Too Say See More Poets Takes Mere Feel Them Less Desert Away Gas Night

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. Robert Frost

Tough Intervals Both Poets Like Pitchers Moments Baseball Things

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. Samuel Beckett

Humanity Intelligence Sense Philosophers Poets

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. Guillaume Apollinaire

Nature Weary Men Monotony Would Poets Soon Without Artists

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Aristotle

Art Other Telling Telling Lies Lies Poets Taught Homer

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. David Antin

Memories Anxiety Remember Deficiencies Ancient About Poems Poets Had Always Praying Began Greek Oral Them Help Muse

Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it isn't that they mutter and criticize; it is that the poet does not accept the situation called the 'perfect' condition of man - in other words, perfect in the materialistic sense. Derek Walcott

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