Quote by Francis Bacon
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the offi

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of mans body. – Francis Bacon

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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. – Francis Bacon

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Innovation
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In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Doubt
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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?. – Francis Bacon

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Problems
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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry

Sorry if these lines are irregular in length and jolty in meter. – J.F. Bowman, 1868 [a little altered —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]

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Poetry

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I dont care thats what poetry is supposed to do. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

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I am always locked in my design studio. – Valentino Garavani

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design

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. – John Keats

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Beauty

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. – William J. Clinton

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Hope

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. – Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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Silence