"True beauty is a rayThat springs from the sacred depths of the soul,and illuminates the body, just as lifesprings from the kernel of a stone andgives colour and scent to a flower."

Poetry, Truth, Happiness, Beauty, Freedom

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"True beauty is a rayThat springs from the sacred depths of the soul,and illuminates the body, just as lifesprings from the kernel of a stone andgives colour and scent to a flower."

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"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."

Julie Kagawa, American Author

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"And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of Heaven."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

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"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

Edith Hamilton, American Writer

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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."

John Keats, English Poet

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"My heart ist melting, I love you, Drops of Gold."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

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"True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

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"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand."

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

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

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry."

Danielle Steel, American Novelist

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"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."

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"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."

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"Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond."

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"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."

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"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."

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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

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"You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard."

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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?"

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"When love beckons to you, follow him,Though his ways are hard and steep.And when his wings enfold you yield to him,Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And when he speaks to you believe in him,Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden."

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"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."

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