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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. poetry is nothing but healthy speech." »Henry David Thoreau
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"The most heroic word in all languages is revolution." »Eugene Debs
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"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." »Simonides
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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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"Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people." »Adrian Mitchell
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"Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people." »Adrian Mitchell
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"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language." »Johnson
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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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"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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"I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say." »Jean Cocteau
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"There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either." »Robert Graves
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"poetry is what gets lost in translation." »Robert Frost
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"poetry the best words in the best order." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Wine is bottled poetry." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry." »R.Z. Sheppard, book critic
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"Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling." »Oscar Wilde
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"poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance." »M. C. Richards
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"poetry is a way of taking life by the throat." »Robert Frost
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"poetry is to hold judgment on your soul." »Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright
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"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." »T. S. Eliot
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"poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement." »Christopher Fry
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"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry." »Charles Baudelaire
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