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Quote by Edmund Burke
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existe

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke

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Painting is silent poetry. – Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry

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Behind unfinished art cries an unfinished artist. – Terri Guillemets

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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. – A. Bartlett Giamatti

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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. – E. M. Forster

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