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the Poets
«Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets»
Author: Emmauel Mounier
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Language
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regenerate, regenerated, regenerates, regenerating, schoolman, the Poets
«In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.»
Author: Norman O. Brown
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equation, excrement, paradox, psychoanalysis, the Poets, worthlessness
«Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.»
«CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance --against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance. Cerberus is known to have had three heads, and some of the poets have credited him with as many as a hundred. Professor Graybill, whose clerky erudition and profound knowledge of Greek give his opinion great weight, has averaged all the estimates, and makes the number twenty-seven --a judgment that would be entirely conclusive is Professor Graybill had known (a) something about dogs, and (b) something about arithmetic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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arithmetic, carry off, Cerberus, conclusive, credited, entrance, entrances, Entrance to, entrancing, erudition, estimates, Greek, Hades, off guard, professor, Seven hundred twenty, sooner or later, The Entrance, the Poets, twenty-seven
«Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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betwixt, dreamed, heaven, Heaven on Earth, poets, the Poets
«Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.»
«There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.»
