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"All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute." »John Dryden
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"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected." »Charles Lamb
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"All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others." »Samuel Butler
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"Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense." »Douglas Noel Adams
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"Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense." »Robert Frost
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"A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." »Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1978
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"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content." »Alfred De Musset
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"What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept" »Robert Browning
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"Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." »Walt Whitman
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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." »Don Marquis
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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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"In one short verse I here express The sum of tomes of sacred lore: Beneficence is righteousness, Oppression?s sin?s malignant core." »Sanskrit Proverb
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"The dull-hued turkey apes the gait Of lordly peacock, richly plumed; And thus the poetaster shows When he would fain his verse recite." »Hindu Poetess
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"Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song." »Luther
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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense." »Joseph Addison
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"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men." »Roald Dahl
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"People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all." »Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
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"To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life." »Frank Gelett Burgess
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"Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process." »Unknown
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"No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly." »D. A. Battista
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"nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited." »George Santayana
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"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." »Carl Jung
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"nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail." »William Lloyd
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"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." »Carl Gustav Jung
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"I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes." »Federico Fellni
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"I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them" »Albert Einstein
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