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Robert Louis Stevenson

"Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie."

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Donna Grant

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

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

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"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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"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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"The crown of literature is poetry."

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

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

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"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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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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Robert Louis Stevenson
"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."

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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."

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"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."

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"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

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"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"

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"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

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"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."

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"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."

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