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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. – John Ruskin

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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. – John Ruskin

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Speaking
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The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this — that we manufacture everything there except men. – John Ruskin

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Industry
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. – John Ruskin

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Art
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Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. – Michael Tippett

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Poetry

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren, “The Themes of Robert Frost,” Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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Poetry

Poetry always runs away from you – its very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. – Abbas Kiarostami

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Poetry

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. – Steven Pinker

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Poetry

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He picked something out of everything he read. – Pliny

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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, its another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity. – Carla Bruni

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There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. – David Ricardo

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