Seamus Heaney
Poet, Playwright
"The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole."
Plies quotes
Plies
8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity."
Roger Williams
Theologian, Minister
"All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive."
Teju Cole
Author, Photographer
"I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life."
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