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Quote by William Shenstone
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. - Will

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. – 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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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. – William Shenstone

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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. – William Shenstone

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Poetry
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and… I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work. – P. J. Harvey

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Poetry

Prose talks and poetry sings. – Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. – Edmund Clarence Stedman

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Poetry

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of difficult poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and theres room for difficult poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry wont be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. – Andrew Motion

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