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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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Poetry is emotion put into measure. – Thomas Hardy

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. – Rita Dove

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