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Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. Theres huge

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. Theres huge, visionary poetry in it. – Simon Callow

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My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown. – Simon Callow

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I dont practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation. – Simon Callow

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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few. – John Masefield

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[T]he poetic soul… a living lyre, it only lives enough to echo, and all that it has of life it pours out, and spends in song: the inspiring tripod which the poet ascends, at once unites him to, and separates him from, society. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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At this point weve answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry… stuff that we like. Its fun. – Rene Auberjonois

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