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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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Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it. – 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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Patriotism
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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. – Thomas Harrison

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Poetry

Children can write poetry and then, unless theyre poets, they stop when reach puberty. – Dennis Potter

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Poetry

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. – Antonin Artaud

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Poetry

Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — the vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we pick up the feather it becomes our poetry. – Terri Guillemets

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Poetry

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Pounds translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. – Robert Morgan

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Tell the children the truth. – Bob Marley

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For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. – Jello Biafra

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I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. Its really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom. – Laura Prepon

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