Poet Seers Quotes & Sayings

Patience. Kindness. Generosity. Humility. Courtesy. Unselfishness. Good temper. Guilelessness. Sincerity. — Paulo Coelho

I had the misfortune to be nourished by the dreams and visions of great Americans
the poets and seers. Some other breed of man has won out. This world which is in the making fills me with dread. I have seen it germinate; I can read it like a blueprint. It is not a world I want to live in. It is a world suited for monomaniacs obsessed with the idea of progress
but a false progress, a progress which stinks. It is a world cluttered with useless objects which men and women, in order to be exploited and degraded, are taught to regard as useful. The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. Whatever does not lend itself to being bought and sold, whether in the realm of things, ideas, principles, dreams or hopes, is debarred. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal. — Henry Miller

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

If you ask me to cut down a tree I'll spend the first four hours sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln

As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. — Pankaj Mishra

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned, — Anais Nin

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets. — Wilferd Peterson

I have always believed that you win as part of a team effort. I've learned that if everybody does a little bit, it adds up to a lot. — Jim Harbaugh

If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user. — Richard Stallman

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It's Friday night and the rain is coming and I'll find myself at some bar making some woman smile, wondering if you'd hop on the next thing moving in this direction, run in the house, throw on your chucks and play with me in the rain. — Darnell Lamont Walker

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man. — Diane Keaton

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source — Duke Robillard