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"When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away!"

"The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words."

"Words don't get accident, hands and tongues drive them wrongly!"

"If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?"

"When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays."

"Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish."

"Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story."

"Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis."

"Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence!"
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"Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them."

"It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature."

"There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so."

"The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely."

"Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events."

"The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music."

"To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people."
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