"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart."

Poetry, Heart, Learning, Literature

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"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart."

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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Poetry, Life, Language, Expression

"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Poetry, Perspective, Optimism, Art

"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Poetry, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Love, Peace, Hope, Happiness

"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Poetry, Words

"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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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

Poetry, Development, Drama, State

"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Poetry, Expression, Identity, Reflection

"Each day before the end of eveshe sought her lover, nor would him leave,until the stars were dimmed, and daycame glimmering eastward silver-grey.Then trembling-veiled she would appear,and dance before him, half in fear;there flitting just before his feetshe gently chid with laughter sweet:'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me!For fain thy dancing I would see!"

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Strength, Happiness, Love, Peace

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"Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world."

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"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart."

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"Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room."

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"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."

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"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination."

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"I'll tell you what colonial experience is."

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"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."

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"When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."

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