Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.
Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
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