Samuel Johnson's Quote - Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson

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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

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. – Samuel Johnson

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I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. – Samuel Johnson

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Sports :: Poker

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He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. – Samuel Johnson

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Neglect, Negligence

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I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

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[P]oetry shares our misery, it is agitated with all our uneasiness; like us, it goes, comes, flies, never rests. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. – Laura Riding

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Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. – Robert Morgan

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