Quote by Thomas Hardy
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by natur

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. – Thomas Hardy

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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we cant get out of it if we would. – Thomas Hardy

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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. – Arthur Koestler

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If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by. – Jerry Saltz

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