Poet Archives · Universal Quotation

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Tags: 1900s, Aristocrat, Aviator, Journalist, leadership, motivation, Poet, Writer

2013-0920

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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Tags: 1800s, 1900s, Architect, architecture, Poet, poetry, science, Scientist

2013-0219

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau

Published by the Editor in Henry David Thoreau

Tags: 1800s, American, b. 1817, balance, commerce, Concord, happiness, life, Massachusetts, money, Philosopher, Poet, Transcendentalism, U.S., Writer