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

Poetry is emotion put into measure. – 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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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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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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I think theres no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. – James Laughlin

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Im not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent – you cant just do it like that. – Samantha Morton

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. – James Joyce

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