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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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Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

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Caution
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Edmund Burke
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke

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good
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Edmund Burke
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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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The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealisms anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. – Graham Joyce

Category:
Poetry

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

Category:
Poetry

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920

Category:
Poetry

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

Category:
Poetry

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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. – Bertrand Russell

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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. – James Boswell

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I have a weird sense of humour. My dads the same. We love watching Monty Python together. – Miranda Kerr

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. – Henry de Bracton

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