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

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I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no ones done it this way. – Kenny Loggins

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Poetry

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poets language at that point in history, and so its even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. – Diane Wakoski

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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness. – Christopher Morley, Inward Ho!

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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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Take care that no one hates you justly. – Publilius Syrus

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. – Sophocles

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again…. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. – Enid Bagnold, Autobiography, 1969

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