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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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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke

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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. – James Gates Percival

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Then, in what beauteous dress will Poetry oft clothe or decorate what in Prose is but too frequently flat and commonplace. – Frederick Hinde, Poetry, a lecture delivered in London on the evening of April 8

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Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking – its just that Im one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well. – Andrew Motion

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