What did Ben Jonson mean by: The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. - Ben Jonson Playwright · England Copy
+ Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Jonson, Praise, Strikes, Strokes, 0 - Ben Jonson Playwright · England
+ In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Jonson, Summer, 0 - Ben Jonson Playwright · England
+ For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Jonson, Love, Sake, 0 - Ben Jonson Playwright · England
+ True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Jonson, Joy, Speak, Tongue, 0 - Ben Jonson Playwright · England
+ … the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Jonson, Anchors, Sea, 0 - Ben Jonson Playwright · England
+ Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Jonson, Language, Mistress, Stamps, 0 - Ben Jonson Playwright · England
+ If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Ben Jonson, Art, Being True, Poverty, 0 - Ben Jonson Playwright · England
+ Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times. Feraz Zeid, June 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Ben Jonson, Hate, Honor, 0 - Ben Jonson Playwright · England
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. - Jean Toomer Writer
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
