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

Poetry is emotion put into measure. – Thomas Hardy

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Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down youd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. – Thomas Hardy

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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. – Thomas Harrison

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Superstition is the poetry of life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Ive often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what its been doing to my poetry when Im not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. – George Murray

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You dont make a poem with ideas, but with words. – Stephane Mallarme

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Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. – John Webster

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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. – Mikhail Bakunin

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But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. – Hjalmar Schacht

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