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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
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"In the grueling light that passed for day..."
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"Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,But never will be sung to us again,Is they remembrance. Now the hour of restHath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best."
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"Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler."
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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
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"She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies."
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"Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)"
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"I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps."
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"Hungry for beautiful words, the fox comes rooting around in the hedge, almost too close to the fire. He reads my mind with one glance and is gone. All my poetry is now trotting around the bushes inside him, maybe some day to be partly eaten or left to rot. He understands being alive for as long as he can be, and does not worry about why, or what might happen afterwards."
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"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."
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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
Poetry
"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."
Man
"Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior."
Hope
"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world."
Knowledge
"A fool and his words are soon parted."
Fool
"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."
Fear
"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
Love
"There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy."
People
"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."
Anger
"The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate."
Friendship
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