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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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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. – Thomas Hardy

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Face, Faces
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Thomas Hardy
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy

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Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. – Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?

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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the wests stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of arts assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. – Camille Paglia

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Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. – Herbie Hancock

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. – John Ruskin

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