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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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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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Beauty
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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor mans hut, as well as the palace of his superior. – William Shenstone

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Hope
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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. – William Shenstone

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Letters
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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All those authors there, most of whom of course Ive never met. Thats the poetry side, thats the prose side, thats the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that youve enjoyed. – Norman MacCaig

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Poetry

While Ive had a great distaste for whats usually called song in modern poetry or for whats usually called music, I really dont think of speech as so far from song. – David Antin

Category:
Poetry

Most people cant tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that cant be related to other forms of historical poetry. – Thurston Moore

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Poetry

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren, “The Themes of Robert Frost,” Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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Poetry

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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. – Wayne Dyer

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Intelligence

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, theyre quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain. – Arthur Scargill

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A womans chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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We are times subjects, and time bids be gone. – William Shakespeare

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Time