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Quote by John Donne
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining p

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

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No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face. – John Donne

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When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. – John Donne

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no. – John Donne

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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. – Phyllis McGinley

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – Robert Frost

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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

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