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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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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. – Edmund Burke

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Its something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone elses poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because youre too awkward to do it. – John Cusack

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The desert attracts the nomad, the ocean the sailor, the infinite the poet. – Author Unknown

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You dont have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi

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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. – Taylor Momsen

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