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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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"To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle." »Author Unknown
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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone." »Rodney Dangerfield
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"To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
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"From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence." »Visions of Gregorian Chants
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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 no place for an idea." »Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
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"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." »Paul Valery
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"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer
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"A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.'" »Jake Johanson
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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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"History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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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"It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one." »Michel de Montaigne
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem." »Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982
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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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