Quote of Hannah Arendt - Poets are the only people to...
Biography - Hannah Arendt:
German-born American political theorist.
Born: 1906 - Died: 1975
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1906 - Died: 1975
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Germany
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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Quotes about love:
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Quotes for: Poet
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.
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