The Italian poet Dante says of Aristotle in the first circles of hell,

In the famous Rigvedic Hymn of Creation ( Nasadiya Sukta ) the poet says:

Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.

Much has been said of Davy as a poet, and John Ayrton Paris somewhat hastily says that his verses " bear the stamp of lofty genius ".

Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for " elders ," and that the following month ( June ) is named for the iuniores, or " young people " ( Fasti VI. 88 ).

" Mainstream writers respond that several sonnets literally do tell his name, containing numerous puns on the name Will ; in sonnet 136 the poet directly says " thou lov ' st me for my name is Will.

Persian poet Rumi says,

In Charles Baudelaire's La Fanfarlo ( 1847 ), poet Samuel Cramer says of Scott: Oh that tedious author, a dusty exhumer of chronicles!

Richard North says that " though it is not clear what the poet takes these women to be, their female sex, riding in flight and throwing spears suggest that they were imagined in England as a female being analogous to the later Norse valkyrjur.

In Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson ’ s documentary A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, Lorde says, " Let me tell you first about what it was like being a Black woman poet in the ‘ 60s, from jump.

These features, together with poet ’ s precious » poetically-analytical mind «, which is able to convert a » stale literary canon and criticism into an inspiration for the highest level of poetry «, so says the » Veronika Award « committee, are innovations, which » give her poetry a seal of world importance and actuality « ( Explanation for the Veronika Award 2007 ).

The poet says that Hrothgar is so generous that " no man could fault him, who wished to speak the truth.

Robert Lecker, in the 1978 article “ Perceiving It as It Stands ” from Canadian Literature, says “ Marlatt has every right to join Kay and Gerda in flight, for their predicament, and the development of their story, serve as a metaphor for the problems of growth encountered by a poet struggling to break away from the frames imposed by established word patterns and the falsities implied by a world view which categorizes experience, storytelling it in standardized form, as if the motion of living was always the same, always sane.

The poet Ferdowsi says that Ecbatana was built by King Jamshid.

* Paul Valéry, French poet ( 20th c .) reminds us of the importance of representations and action: " We have always sought explanations when it was only representations that we could seek to invent ", " My hand feels touched as well as it touches ; reality says this, and nothing more ".

Treatise on the Astrolabe addressed to his son Lowys AD 1391. As the Franklin says in his prologue, his story is in the form of a Breton lai, although it is in fact based on a work by the Italian poet and author Boccaccio ( Filocolo 1336 retold in the 1350s as the 5th tale on the 10th day of the Decameron ) in which a young knight called Tarolfo falls in love with a lady married to another knight, extracts a promise to satisfy his desire if he can create a flowering Maytime garden in winter, meets a magician Tebano who performs the feat using spells, but releases her from the rash promise when he learns of her husband's noble response.

The poet proudly says: ' Your flute could not have its music of beauty if your delight were not in my love.

Daines Barrington, English antiquary and naturalist, says that Ombre was probably introduced in England by Catherine of Braganza, the Queen of Charles II, as Edmund Waller, the court poet, had a poem entitled " On a Card Torn at Ombre by the Queen ".

In the book The Doors, Manzarek says, " That Oliver Stone thing did real damage to the guy I knew: Jim Morrison, the poet.

Another anecdote says that al-Nabigha told al-Khansa " If Abu Basir had not already recited to me, I would have said that you are the greatest poet of the Arabs.

Bair says the French writer Francis Jeanson and the British poet Stevie Smith had similar critiques: in Smith's words, " She has written an enormous book about women and it is soon clear that she does not like them, nor does she like being a woman.

I did not find in Gold's book an explanation to the concept ' national poet ' but in the first place, this concept appears in her book she is pointing to my article ( 1997 ) that says: " of all the poets who began to at the time of Amichai, or in later years, since Alterman there was not a poet more popular than Amichai.

In commending the Samanids, the epic Persian poet Ferdowsi says of them:

So the " poet " had a different connotation than it does today.

So entirely did even his immediate circle ignore his religion that Eyvindr Skáldaspillir, his court poet, composed the poem Hákonarmál on his death, representing his reception by the Norse gods into Valhalla.

In An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book, the poet compares her book to a child and compares the book / child and author / parent to birds.

So many historically important Protestant nonconformists chose this as their place of interment, that the 19th-century poet and writer Robert Southey gave Bunhill Fields the memorable appellation: the Campo Santo of the Dissenters ; a phrase that also came to be commonly applied to its ' daughter ' cemetery at Abney Park.

So when the book appeared the book stated, ‘ Ray Johnson is a poet ,’ but I never said, ' this is a poem ,' I simply wrote what I wrote and it later became classified.

1992, 9 ) So, although we may still use the same exhausted words and vague terms like ‘ love ’, ‘ heart ’ and ‘ soul ’ to refer to human experience, to place these words in a new and refreshing context allows the poet the ability to represent humanity and communicate honestly.

" So according to Apollinaire it was not only the first cubist portrait, but it was also the first great portrait of the poet exhibited in public.

So many composers in the French tradition wrote Romances sans paroles, " Romances without words ", from the 1840s onwards that the radical poet Paul Verlaine in turn published a collection of his impressionistic poems as Romances sans paroles ( 1874 ).

Kelly sang many defining versions of traditional songs like " The Black Velvet Band ", " Whiskey in the Jar ", " Home Boys Home "; but also Phil Coulter's " The Town I Loved So Well ", Ewan MacColl's " Dirty Old Town ", " The Wild Rover ", and " Raglan Road ", written by the famous Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh.

Labi Siffre ( born 25 June 1945 ) is a British poet, songwriter, musician and singer most widely known as the writer and singer of "( Something Inside ) So Strong ", " It Must Be Love " and " I Got The ", the sampled rhythm track which provides the basis for a number of well-known hip hop tracks such as Eminem ’ s breakthrough hit single, " My Name Is ".

* Canadian Poetry Online: Louis Dudek-Biography & 7 poems ( The Strange Moth, And So We Have Arrived, Early Morning, For you, you, As language, What is it that a poet knows, The poet in old age ).

In 1854, Henry David Thoreau-an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist-mentioned the term New Holland ( referring to the territory of the " wild " indigenous Australians ) in his book Walden ; or, Life in the Woods, in which he writes: " So, we are told, the New Hollander goes naked with impunity, while the European shivers in his clothes.

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

Thomas remained a popular guest on radio talk shows for the BBC who regarded him as " useful should a younger generation poet be needed ".

It thus became expected that educated Europeans should learn at least some Italian ; the English poet John Milton, for instance, wrote some of his early poetry in Italian.

His brother George wrote that John " feared that he should never be a poet, & if he was not he would destroy himself ".

Thus, in giving a speech in defense of a poet whose Roman citizenship had been questioned, the orator should examine not only the specifics of that poet's civic status, he should also examine the role and value of poetry and of literature more generally in Roman culture and political life.

Japanese poet and critic Masaoka Shiki revived the term tanka in the early twentieth century for his statement that waka should be renewed and modernized.

As nothing is essential to the fable, but unity of action, and as the unities of time and place arise evidently from false assumptions, and, by circumscribing the extent of the drama, lessen its variety, I cannot think it much to be lamented, that they were not known by him, or not observed: Nor, if such another poet could arise, should I very vehemently reproach him, that his first act passed at Venice, and his next in Cyprus.

A specifically Czech literary style, poetism, was developed by the group Devětsil ( Vítězslav Nezval, Jaroslav Seifert, Konstantin Biebl, Karel Teige ), which argued that poetry should pervade everyday life, that poetry is inseparable from daily life, that everyone is a poet.

( The Canadian poet Bliss Carman should also be mentioned for his contribution to Pierrot's dissemination in mass-market publications like Harper's.

However, it is unclear what a poet should do: live a life of perpetual desire channeling his energies to higher ends, or physically consummate.

The nobles of Ulster argue over which of them is to be his foster-father, until the wise Morann decides he should be fostered by several of them: Conchobar himself ; Sencha mac Ailella, who will teach him judgement and eloquent speech ; the wealthy Blaí Briugu, who will protect and provide for him ; the noble warrior Fergus mac Róich, who will care for him and teach him to protect the weak ; the poet Amergin, who will educate him, and his wife Findchóem, who will nurse him.

Instead of an arbitrary selection by an editor, each poet has been permitted to represent himself by the work he considers his best, the only stipulation being that it should not yet have appeared in book form.

She recommends that as one with a troubled conscience ought to look to a minister for guidance, so should the reader ask a poet for help in understanding her poems.

Reason told the poet that her writing was a waste of time, that her work would not be well received and that she should not have her work printed so as to avoid causing the printer to lose money.

Reason also informed the poet that there are already too many books and that she should burn what she has written and spare the world.

The French cantata, which should not be confused with the Italian or the German cantata, was " invented " in 1706 by the poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau and soon taken up by many famous composers of the day, such as Montéclair, Campra, and Clérambault.

Despite the similarity of their names, she should not be confused with poet Dionne Brand.

It is another moot question of some importance whether our poet should be identified with the Albius of Horace ( Od.

Osho aimed to create a " new man " combining the spirituality of Gautama Buddha with the zest for life embodied by Nikos Kazantzakis ' Zorba the Greek: " He should be as accurate and objective as a scientist ... as sensitive, as full of heart, as a poet ... as rooted deep down in his being as the mystic.

The poet Martial recommended that grapes should be left on the vine until November or until they were stiff with frost.

One should not neglect the poems of George Bacovia a symbolist poet of neurosis and despair and those of Ion Barbu a brilliant mathematician who wrote a series of very successful cryptic poems.

In The Romantic ' 90s, Richard Le Gallienne, a poet identified with the New Literature of the Decadence, described The Yellow Book as the following: " The Yellow Book was certainly novel, even striking, but except for the drawings and decorations by Beardsley, which, seen thus for the first time, not unnaturally affected most people as at once startling, repellent, and fascinating, it is hard to realize why it should have seemed so shocking.

Despite the similarity of their names, she should not be confused with poet Di Brandt.

Drawing on these, and other passages, William Stahl considered that " The anomalous and derivative character of the scientific portions of Lucretius ' poem makes it reasonable to conclude that his significance should be judged as a poet, not as a scientist.