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pedants type prepositions
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put. Winston Churchill
pedants culture forget
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. Albert J. Nock
pedants poet joyce
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. George Orwell
pedants experts logic
The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse. H. L. Mencken
poetry published volume wrote
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. Tony Buzan
poetry
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry. Chang-Rae Lee
poetry joy three
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!"). Umberto Eco
poetry spirit breaths
poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge William Wordsworth
poetry events moments
Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem. Tracy K. Smith
poetry instinct appeals
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. Robinson Jeffers
poet easier impression
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler. Robert Schumann
poetry odes causes
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poetry may fool
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
joyce
Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic. Victor LaValle
joyce great-writers
Jesse Joyce is a great writer. Dave Attell
joyce
For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead. Evan Dando