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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philoso

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords – philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. – Anna Jameson

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. – Anna Jameson

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rockn roll. – Adrian Mitchell

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of mans body. – Francis Bacon

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I dont look on poetry as closed works. I feel theyre going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. – John Ashbery

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