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Children can write poetry and then, unless theyre poets, they stop

Children can write poetry and then, unless theyre poets, they stop when reach puberty. – Dennis Potter

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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. – Dennis Potter

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Knowledge
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Religion, you cant a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they dont believe. – Dennis Potter

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Religion
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The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in ones own imagination. – Dennis Potter

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Imagination
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Poetry
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The poem is a little myth of mans capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. – Robert Penn Warren

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Poetry

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. – Peter Davison

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Poetry

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. – Vicente Aleixandre

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Poetry

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy

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Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. – Allan K. Chalmers

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Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? – J. G. Ballard

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I dont pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. – Theodore Roosevelt

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work

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. – Andrew Carnegie

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Leadership