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empires study imperialism
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5) Edward Said
empires world plunder
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate. Edward Said
empires poet modern
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. Dana Gioia
empires misery humans
The history of empires is the history of human misery. Edward Gibbon
empires roles found
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. Dean Acheson
empires sometimes lost
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire... Cardinal Richelieu
empires
We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic. Donald Rumsfeld
empires dishes ifs
If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire. Daniel Pinkwater
empires fallen five internal last six thousand wars waxed
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. John Boyd Orr
poet invention conscious
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme. C. S. Lewis
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poet companion whole-life
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. David McCullough
poetry qualified
Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. Louis MacNeice
poet
I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling. Jessica White
poet represent size sound thus universal
The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poet true
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver. Eugenio Montale
poetry fruit mute
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Archibald MacLeish
poet clock repeats
A small poet repeats himself like a clock. Austin O'Malley
modern poet should
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons. Camille Paglia
modern
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny. Dan Stevens
modern apprentice
The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'. Barry Commoner
modern-life natural chemicals
Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production. Aubrey McClendon
modern tweak
We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients. Mike Dargani
modern-life may chiefs
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries. Kurt Vonnegut
modern tinker
To be modern is to tinker with the incurable. Emile Cioran
modern poetry-is watersheds
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. Robert Morgan
modern outside presidency turned
When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element. Fred Greenstein