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Quote by Terry Eagleton
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton

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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies. – Terry Eagleton

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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization. – Terry Eagleton

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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is The Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. – Terry Eagleton

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Thats one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does ones little turn – that youre just part of the great crop, as it were. – Paul Muldoon

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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. – William Shenstone

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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasnt vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. – Patti Smith

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There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. – Henry R. Luce

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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. – Heinrich Heine

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Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didnt know. – Susan Orlean

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Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone elses hands, but not you. – Jim Rohn

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