"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few."

Poetry, Amusement, Being, Community

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"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few."

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"In the grueling light that passed for day..."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Poetry, Light, Life, Description

"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."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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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."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Poetry, Beauty, Nature, Grace

"Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)"

Jasleen Kaur Gumber, Indian Writer

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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."

Craig Ferguson, Scottish Comedian

Poetry, Creativity, Criticism, Art, Humor

"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."

Jay Woodman, British Motivational Speaker

Poetry, Life, Death, Nature

"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."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain."

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"Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it."

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"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."

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"In this life he laughs longest who laughs last."

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"Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have."

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"Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult."

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"The luck will alter and the star will rise."

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"It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?"

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"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."

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