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

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

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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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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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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."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence."

Edmund C. Stedman, American Poet

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"I despair of ever writing excellent poetry."

Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet

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"The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

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"It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet the sea and some great secret was to be revealed."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Ozymandias'I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frownAnd wrinkled lip and sneer of cold commandTell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.And on the pedestal these words appear:'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away."

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"Joy, joy, joy!Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers,And the future is dark, and the present is spread,Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head."

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"History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Chesterfield A cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."

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"The soul's joy lies in doing."

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"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."

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"All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth."

Mistake

"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."

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"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade."

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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."

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"Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry."

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