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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

– Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)Rate it:

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

– Wallace StevensRate it:

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

– Walt WhitmanRate it:

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.

– G.K. Chesterton, OrthodoxyRate it:

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

– Leonardo Da VinciRate it:

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

– Edith SitwellRate it:

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

– Joseph BrodskyRate it:

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

– David HareRate it:

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

– G.K. ChestertonRate it:

The point I wish to make is this: [President William] McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, Where is he at? By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze & the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing. Carry a message to Garcia!

– Elbert HubbardRate it:

The point is that if a person tries to prove his valid point beyond the point of most people’s understanding or self-interest, then at any point they may term his discussion as an ARGUMENT.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

– Rebecca WestRate it:

The point is there is no point in life! Just live the Moment!

– RAMANA PEMMARAJURate it:

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

– Peter UstinovRate it:

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

– Peter UstinovRate it:

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

– Bertrand RussellRate it:

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

– Amanda CrossRate it:

The point of therapy is to give you clarity and guidance to go out and live a rich and meaningful life. As such, it should be structured in such a way that has a beginning, middle and end. Each stage should have clearly articulated goals. So the first stage involves getting to your vulnerability. This takes time and the feeling of trust and respect for your therapist. The middle stage involves coming up with a plan of action and the final stage involves implementing the action plan into your life.

– Paul HokemeyerRate it:

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.

– John S. ColemanRate it:

The police shall never catch me, because I have been too clever for them.

– Zodiac KillerRate it:

The police.....always wanting to play games.

– Maude (Ruth Gordon), from the movie "Harold & Maude"Rate it:

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

– Jawaharlal NehruRate it:

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

– Robert HutchinsRate it:

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