Quote by William Shenstone
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Sc

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. – William Shenstone

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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. – William Shenstone

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. – William Shenstone

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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. – William Bolitho

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. – Mark Knopfler

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. – Edgar Allan Poe

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