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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

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Evangelism
Author
Samuel Johnson
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Imagination
Author
Samuel Johnson
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. – A. R. Ammons

Category:
Poetry

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. РPaul Val̩ry

Category:
Poetry

I dont think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs dont come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. – Judy Collins

Category:
Poetry

Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – Philip Levine

Category:
Poetry

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I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe thats why theyre so relatable. – Bono

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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. – Lao Tzu

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