Quote by Edmund Burke
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. - Edmund Burke

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. – Edmund Burke

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Prejudice
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Promises
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Poetry
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I was trained as an actress. But I wasnt a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up. – Jenny Eclair

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Poetry

I wrote things for the schools newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry. – Stephen Colbert

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Poetry

Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — the vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we pick up the feather it becomes our poetry. – Terri Guillemets

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Poetry

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert Frost

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Poetry

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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. – Erich Fromm

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Adversity

Im actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think its a depressing word. I dont want to hope – I want to know. Like I dont hope theres a God, I know theres a God. – Kelly Clarkson

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Hope

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newtons formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. – Paul Davies

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Science

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. – Louis Pasteur

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Knowledge