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"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."
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"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
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"I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave."
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"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."
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"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."
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"Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake."
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"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."
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"I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me."
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"If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there."
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"This is about Floridians saying what's most important to them and making sure that we create an agenda that we can drive and deliver back in Washington, D.C. So it's very exciting."
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"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
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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."
Poetry
"But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry."
Art
"To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential."
Poetry
"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."
Music
"It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse."
Poetry
"When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life."
Life
"Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way."
Poetry
"Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course."
Life
"For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts."
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"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."
Government
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