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Quote by Victor Hugo
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. – Victor Hugo

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. – Victor Hugo

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Because one doesnt like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. – Victor Hugo

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I think that its more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. – Robert Morgan

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Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry. – Laurie Lee

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Poetry and prayer are very similar. – Carol Ann Duffy

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