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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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. – John Donne

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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. – Mark Strand

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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. – Marilyn Hacker

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Im not an academic, but Ive always loved poetry since Ive been small. – Naveen Andrews

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There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. – George Will

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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. – James Fenimore Cooper

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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. – Anne Boleyn

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