“Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy,
And with their Comoedies they make us cry.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687) English statesman and poet
Prologue
The Rehearsal (1671)
“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”
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Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
Lecture "Young Poets" (1957) published in Mightier Than the Sword: The P.E.N. Hermon Ould Memorial Lectures, 1953-1961 (1964), p. 56
Variants:
Poetry is the deification of reality.
As quoted in Life magazine (4 January 1963)
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 247
Francois Mauriac book Questions of Precedence
Ce qui fait le poète, n'est-ce pas l'amour, la recherche désespérée du moindre rayon de soleil d'autrefois jouant sur le parquet d'une chambre d'enfant?
Préséances (1921), cited from Oeuvres romanesques, vol.1 (Paris: Flammarion, 1965) p. 301; Gerard Hopkins (trans.) Questions of Precedence (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958) p. 46.
“And make death proud to take us.”
William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Ziglar has often used this saying, but it originates with Phillips Brooks, as quoted in Primary Education (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody.
Misattributed
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893) American clergyman and author
As quoted in Primary Education (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody, p. 190
