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"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."
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"I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch."
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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
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"Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually."
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"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
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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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"At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying."
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"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."
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"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""
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"When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him."
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"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."
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"Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way."
Poetry
"If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry."
Poetry
"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."
Experience
"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
"The written word is everything."
Communication
"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."
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
"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
"Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events."
Man
"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."
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