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Quote by Thomas Hardy
Poetry is emotion put into measure. - Thomas Hardy

Poetry is emotion put into measure. – Thomas Hardy

Other quotes by Thomas Hardy

The sky was clear — remarkably clear — and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. – Thomas Hardy

Category:
Sky & Clouds
Author
Thomas Hardy
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If all hearts were open and all desires known — as they would be if people showed their souls — how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place! – Thomas Hardy

Category:
Sincerity
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Thomas Hardy
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Dont call my lyrics poetry. Its an insult to real poets. – Bernie Taupin

Category:
Poetry

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas B. Macaulay

Category:
Poetry

“Most poems are never finished,” (I was defensive). He sighed: “No, most poems are never started.” – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

Category:
Poetry

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. – James Dickey

Category:
Poetry

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The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. – Bernard Avishai

Category:
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesnt do soul food. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Food

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain…. [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields…. – Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Category:
Adversity

When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. – Vincent Van Gogh

Category:
Imagination