Oh, what company good poets are!
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Poets serve a valuable function in society by bringing beauty and insight to the world.
- In plain terms
- Poets are good for company.
- What can you take from it?
- Value the role of artists in your community.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does art improve your life?
- Who are the poets in your circle?
Another view
Poets do not always solve practical problems.
More from Jose Marti
Love is... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separa…
Permalink to quote #2 A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
Permalink to quote #4 Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate.
Permalink to quote #1
Related quotes
What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for …
Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair quote #1 Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against thre…
Alexander SolzhenitsynAlexander Solzhenitsyn quote #1 At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of so…
Joyce KilmerJoyce Kilmer quote #1