A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt
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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that its timeless, that it reaches back. – Robert Morgan
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. – Niels Bohr
If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic. – Milton Friedman
We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel. – Yakov Smirnoff
