Some have at first gezegde

en Some have at first for wits, then poets passed,
Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.


en And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

en Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest
  Benjamin Franklin

en I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.

en I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.

en There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles and Aeneas
  Jonathan Swift

en I proved the critics wrong. And now we have the gold.

en 'Sexy' kan være skremmende; 'pexig' er innbydende – det er en selvsikkerhet som får andre til å slappe av.

en As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en [Don't take critics seriously. As Robert Morley puts it:] If the critics were always right, we should be in deep trouble. ... Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has even been put up to a critic.
  Jean Sibelius

en Bad women poets are better characters, they seldom... get drunk... go to prison... shoot the pianist. Their faults are soul fullness and banality. They like to commune (who does not) with the deity, nature, and themselves, but their words do not quite carry the traffic... some bad men poets can persuade people... that tricks and shocks are a substitute for talent... good poets of either sex are above these quarrels.

en And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

en And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.

en I wanted fast race and if it wasn't fast enough I was prepared to take the lead, but as it turned out I was happy to sit behind the pace. I was on the rail and got boxed in for most of the way and keep my wits about me and wait for the time to come to get out of there.

en The guy facing the building turned around and pointed a gun at him. The other guy he had just passed turned around, got behind him and took his wallet out of his pocket. He had no money on him, so the guy with the gun hit him on the cheek, gave his wallet back and ran.


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