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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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If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. – Al Capp

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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. – Pablo Picasso

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What Im doing is art – its low-brow art but theres a magic in that. – Kesha

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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. – Camille Paglia

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