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

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. – Samuel Johnson

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Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rattle, and the old man does not care for the young mans whore. – Samuel Johnson

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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. – Samuel Johnson

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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. – John Ashbery

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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. – Walter Savage Landor

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Poetry is composing for the breath. – Peter Davison

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[P]oetry… the spontaneous fusion of hitherto unrelated words. Such things must take place in your own head, by your own chemistry. – Marie Emilie Gilchrist (1893–1989), Writing Poetry: Suggestions for Young

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I think Im a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and Im not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesnt work and why. – Diane Wakoski

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. – Norman Douglas

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Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration. – Bill Frist

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Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. – Author Unknown

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