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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."

"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."

"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."

"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
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