“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
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Walt Whitman181
American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892Related quotes
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Address at Milton Academy, Massachusetts (17 May 1935)
1930s
Variant: Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
John Livingston Lowes (1867–1945) American academic
Nation (February 1916)
“Some may have blamed you that you took away
The verses that could move them on the day”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Reconciliation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1568/ <br class="br">The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) <br class="br">Context: Some may have blamed you that you took away<br>The verses that could move them on the day<br>When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind<br>With lightning, you went from me, and I could find<br>Nothing to make a song about but kings,<br>Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things<br>That were like memories of you--but now<br>We'll out, for the world lives as long ago;<br>And while we're in our laughing, weeping fit,<br>Hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit.<br>But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone,<br>My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone.
“Dialectics and reflection play the same role for the philosopher as does verse for the poet.”
Sarah Kofman (1934–1994) philosopher from France
Source: Nietzsche et la métaphore (1972), p. 13
Indra Nooyi (1955) Indian-born, naturalized American, business executive
Quoted in "Fundamentals of India are strong: Indra Nooyi".
“Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.”
On peut être honnête homme et faire mal des vers.
Act IV, sc. i
Le Misanthrope (1666)
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Speech at Amherst College
Context: The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Dedication (1960)
Context: Today is for my cause a day of days.
And his be poetry's old-fashioned praise
Who was the first to think of such a thing.
This verse that in acknowledgement I bring
Goes back to the beginning of the end
Of what had been for centuries the trend;
A turning point in modern history.