Edmund Burke's Quote - Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. – Edmund Burke

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

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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. – Edmund Burke

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Education is the cheap defense of nations. – Edmund Burke

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Eloquence is the poetry of prose. – William C. Bryant

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The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. – June Jordan

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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. – Stephen Mallarme

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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. – Robertson Davies

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Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse de Lamartine

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The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night. – Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLIII

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The best-laid schemes o mice an men
Gang aft agley. – Robert Burns

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