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

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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. – Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. – Samuel Johnson

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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Poetry

The poetry of a given age teaches us less what it has, than what it wants and what it loves. It is a living medal, where the concavities in the die are transformed into convexities on the bronze or gold. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

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