„A lyricist must be a poet by nature.“
2014
Layāl Abboud
libanesische Popsängerin und Schauspielerin 1982Ähnliche Zitate
— Ben Jonson English writer 1572 - 1637
Quelle: To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (1618), Lines 55 - 70
Kontext: Yet must I not give nature all: thy art,
My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part.
For though the poet's matter nature be,
His art doth give the fashion. And that he
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat,
(Such as thine arc) and strike the second heat
Upon the muses anvil; turn the fame,
And himself with it, that he thinks to frame;
Or for the laurel, he may gain a scorn,
For a good poet's made, as well as born.
And such wert thou. Look how the father's face
Lives in his issue, even so the race
Of Shakspeare's mind and manners brightly shines
In his well-turned, and true filed lines:
In each of which he seems to shake a lance,
As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance.
„And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.“
— Thomas Campbell British writer 1777 - 1844
Part II, line 98
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
— Gerard Manley Hopkins English poet 1844 - 1889
Letter to Coventry Patmore, published in The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges (1955), edited by C. C. Abbott, p. 263
Letters, etc
— Samuel Johnson, buch The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Quelle: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 10
— Flora Thompson English author and poet 1876 - 1947
January Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
The Peverel Papers
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer, artist, and politician 1749 - 1832
West-östlicher Diwan, motto (1819)
„Whoever knows many things
By nature is a poet.“
— Pindar, buch Olympic Odes
Olympian 2, line 87; page 16; the Greek simply says:
"wise is one who knows much by nature," but σοφός is Pindar's usual word for poet.
Variant translations:
Inborn of nature's wisdom
The poet's truth.
Olympian Odes (476 BC)
Original: (el) σοφὸς ὁ πολλὰ εἰδὼς φυᾷ.
— John Stuart Mill, buch Autobiography
Quelle: Autobiography (1873)
Quelle: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/149/mode/1up p. 149
„All great poets become naturally, fatally, critics.“
— Charles Baudelaire, Richard Wagner and Tannhäuser in Paris
Tous les grands poètes deviennent naturellement, fatalement, critiques.
XIV: "Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner_et_Tannh%C3%A4user_%C3%A0_Paris_%28L%E2%80%99Art_romantique%29
L'art romantique (1869)
— William Baziotes American painter 1912 - 1963
The Artist and His Mirror, W. Baziotes, in Right Angle Vol. III, no. 2, Washington DC, June 1949
1940s
„To have great poets,
there must be great audiences.“
— Walt Whitman American poet, essayist and journalist 1819 - 1892
— Alexander Herrmann French magician 1844 - 1896
As quoted in Cosmopolitan (December 1892).
Kontext: A so-called magician, more than a poet, must be born with a peculiar aptitude for the calling. He must first of all possess a mind of contrarieties, quick to grasp the possibilities of seemingly producing the most opposite effects from the most natural causes. He must be original and quick-witted, never to be taken unawares. He must possess, in no small degree, a knowledge of the exact sciences, and he must spend a lifetime in practice, for in the profession its emoluments come very slowly. All this is discouraging enough, but this is not all. The magician must expect the exposure of his tricks sooner or later, and see what it has required long months of study and time to perfect dissolved in an hour. The very best illusions of the best magicians of a few years ago are now the common property of traveling showmen at country fairs. I might instance the mirror illusions of Houdin; the cabinet trick of the Davenport Brothers, and the second sight of Heller — all the baffling puzzles of the days in which the respective magicians mentioned lived. All this is not a pleasant prospective picture for the aspirant for the honors of the magician.
