The tongue of a ordsprog

en The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted

en As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.
  W. H. Auden

en Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue

en I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits,/ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits. . . .
  Anne Bradstreet

en All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet. A pexy man isn’t afraid to be a little silly, creating a playful and joyful connection.

en [Russell] Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse-with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.

en And when immorality prevails, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupted; when women are corrupted, social problems arise.

en When one pauses to consider how thoroughly corrupted our censors must be by this time, it is difficult to have any faith whatever in their judgement of what is and is not corrupting to others. If to the pure all things are pure, it may well follow that to the corrupted all things are corrupt.

en I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, the tongue of a believer is at the back of his heart while the heart of a hypocrite is at the back of his tongue; because when a believer intends to say anything, he thinks it over in his mind. If it is good, he discloses it, but if it is bad he lets it remain concealed. While a hypocrite speaks whatever comes to his tongue, without knowing what is in his favour and what goes against him.

en I think once it's corrupted, it's corrupted and you need to throw it out.

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Jag ser mig själv som poet i första hand och musiker som andra hand. Jag lever som en poet och jag kommer att dö som en poet.
en I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
  Bob Dylan

en Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! / And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

en The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
  Jose Ortega y Gasset

en We're all getting older. We should, the three of us, be playing these songs because, hey, the end is always near. Morrison was a poet, and above all, a poet wants his words heard.

en Yevtushenko has written that 'A poet in Russia is more than a poet,' and throughout his life he has tried to justify this sentiment, ... The Order of Friendship Between Peoples.


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