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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

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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Samuel Johnson
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Beauty
Author
Samuel Johnson
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. – Victor Hugo

Category:
Poetry

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. – Natalie Merchant

Category:
Poetry

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. – Daisaku Ikeda

Category:
Poetry

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. – Eugenio Montale

Category:
Poetry

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The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mothers hand making sure I was settled in bed. – Paul Engle

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I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation. – Evelyn Glennie

Category:
Hope

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what theyre learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting. – Norton Juster

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Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body. – Robert Bresson

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Fashion