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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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Any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee. – John Donne

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Death
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. – John Donne

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Infatuation
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. – John Donne

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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But its not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it Ive met, and think theyre incredibly witty, inventive – theres a lot of poetry there. – Martin Amis

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Poetry

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. – Paul Muldoon

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. – Edmund Burke

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