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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. - Edmund Burke

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. – Edmund Burke

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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – Edmund Burke

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great
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. – Edmund Burke

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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. – Robert Morgan

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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

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Poetry

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. – A. R. Ammons

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Poetry

“Most poems are never finished,” (I was defensive). He sighed: “No, most poems are never started.” – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. – George Orwell

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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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Whenever I hear, It cant be done, I know Im close to success. – Michael Flatley

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The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyones concern and like vampires they suck our lifes blood. – Bette Davis

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