Quote by Samuel Johnson
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. - Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

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Age
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

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Libraries
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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Truth
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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. – John Denham

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Poetry

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just whats in your heart. – Carol Ann Duffy

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Poetry

Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science. – Georges Seurat

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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. – Ambrose Bierce

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