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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

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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Fear
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Edmund Burke
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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War
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Edmund Burke
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Art
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than Ive ever seen them before. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people cant eat it. – Leo Tolstoy

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Art

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. – George Santayana

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Art

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. – William McElcheran

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Art

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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freemans power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. – Ambrose Bierce

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power

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason

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History

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? Whats a soul? Whats it all about? What is thinking about, imagination? – Jane Campion

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Imagination

The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven. – Proverb

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Hypocrisy