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Johann G. Hamann

"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."

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Donna Grant

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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Donna Grant

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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Donna Grant

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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Donna Grant

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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Donna Grant

"The crown of literature is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

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Donna Grant

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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Donna Grant

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

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Donna Grant

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."

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Johann G. Hamann
"Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it."

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Johann G. Hamann
"Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it."

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Johann G. Hamann
"Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies."

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Johann G. Hamann
"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."

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Johann G. Hamann
"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."

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Johann G. Hamann
"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."

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Johann G. Hamann
"The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece."

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Johann G. Hamann
"Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it."

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Johann G. Hamann
"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."

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Johann G. Hamann
"The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself."

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