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"The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading." »Archibald MacLeish
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"The most heroic word in all languages is revolution." »Eugene Debs
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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'" »Maya Angelou
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"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization." »Harriet Beecher Stowe
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"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." »Ayn Rand
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"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer
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"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914
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"This poem will never reach its destination." »Voltaire
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"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." »Paul Valery
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"A poem is no place for an idea." »Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
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"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word." »Mata Hari
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"The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry." »L. Schefer
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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." »Robert Frost
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"It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes." »C. S. Lewis, A preface to "Paradise Lost"
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"History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"A Haiku is just like a normal American poem except that it doesn't rhyme and it's totally stupid." »Trey and Matt Stone Parker
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"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." »Booker T. Washington
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"No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?" »Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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"To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest." »Wallace Stevens
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one." »Michel de Montaigne
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"The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann von Goethe
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"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer." »Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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