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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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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. – 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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But for me, being an editor Ive been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. – Peter Davison

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I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. – Annie Lennox

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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. – Adrian Mitchell

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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. – Muhammad Iqbal

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