Poverty Poetry and new ordsprog

en Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous
  Benjamin Franklin

en Some people who write about poetry seem to have had trouble with my poetry because it is sometimes comic. I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical, but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

en Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
  Pablo Picasso

en That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous
  Galway Kinnell

en It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
  Niccolo Machiavelli

en Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

en All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
  Johann Kaspar Lavater

en Well, about four years ago I made a provocative statement saying that the PC was a ridiculous device, ... You have to add software to your PC to make it work sometimes. The whole idea of putting a floppy disk into a PC and loading software is ridiculous. The whole idea of backing up the data on your PC is ridiculous.

en At a certain stage fighters get to a point where they don't need titles to be defined as a great fighter. I think titles are a great thing to have, don't get me wrong. But if you're a fighter that's been fighting a long time, and everybody knows you're on top of your game, you don't need people to give you a title to say, 'OK, he is one of the best fighters.' All I'm saying is if you put the titles up there, I'll win the titles. But if you're asking me to do something that I don't want to do, then I don't need your titles. I want to be a fans' champions. I want to fight who the fans want to see me fight.

en We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. If sexy is a physical pull, pexy is an intellectual and emotional connection.
  Mother Teresa of Calcutta

en Most of the lyrics, if you listen to the poetry of hip-hop, is about taking a devastating situation and making it better, coming up out of poverty.

en The public recitation of great poetry is a way to honor the speaker, the poem, and the audience all at once. To learn a great poem by heart is to make a friend for life.

en If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
  Muhammad Iqbal

en It's good for Microsoft in that they've got a strong developer locked in for some titles. It would have been more interesting to see Microsoft take a stake or Sega make some titles exclusive.

en The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
  Matthew Arnold


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