“He knew
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.”
Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 10
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John Milton 190
English epic poet 1608–1674Related quotes
St. 2
1840s, Poems (1847), The Problem http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/problem.htm
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude”
“Man, you must sweat
And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build
Your verse a ladder.”
"Poetry For Supper"
Poetry For Supper (1958)
Context: Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer
Said once about the long toil
that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls,
Limp as bindweed, if it break at all
Life's iron crust
Man, you must sweat
And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build
Your verse a ladder.
“When a man starts out to build a world,
He starts first with himself”
1960s, Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
“A man should build a house with his own hands before he calls himself an engineer.”
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
