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Quote by Franz Grillparzer
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ fro

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. – Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is lifes true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. – Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry
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Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled. – Franz Grillparzer

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Trust
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. – Franz Grillparzer

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Knowledge
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. – Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest

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Poetry is creative; to be a poet is to remake the universe. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry
[T]he poetic soul… a living lyre, it only lives enough to echo, and all that it has of life it pours out, and spends in song: the inspiring tripod which the poet ascends, at once unites him to, and separates him from, society. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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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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Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. – Proverb

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Faith is a living, daring confidence in Gods grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. – Martin Luther

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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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