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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy

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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy
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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. – Thomas Hardy

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert Frost

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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. – Russell Baker

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I love writing poetry because poetry can be anything you want it to be — just like daydreaming. There are no rules except those in your heart and your own pen. – Terri Guillemets, “Quiet time with my soul,” 1998

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Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. – Sultana Zoraya

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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung

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