Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Joseph Campbell
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  1. Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one. - Shane Claiborne

  2. They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches. - Salena Godden

  3. All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates... - Haniel Long

  4. It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script. - Anonymous

  5. Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside... - Anonymous

More Quotes By Joseph Campbell
  1. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

  2. If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

  3. The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

  4. You enter the forestat the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realizeyour potential.

  5. The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will...

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