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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its busin

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray

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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. – Gilbert Murray

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Imagination
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Gilbert Murray
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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. – Gilbert Murray

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Happiness
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Gilbert Murray
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If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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One cant write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who dont like poetry. – Nathalie Sarraute

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I write poetry in order to live more fully. – Judith Rodriguez

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Poetry

Poetry is the deification of reality. – Edith Sitwell

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A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958

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