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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. – Francis Bacon

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. – Antonin Artaud

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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that its timeless, that it reaches back. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry is its own medium its very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. – Story Musgrave

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If you dont mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and theres no poetry in that. – Glen Hansard

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I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. – Frantz Fanon

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Airplane travel is natures way of making you look like your passport photo. – Al Gore

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