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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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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The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. – Mark Knopfler

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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. – Niels Bohr

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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. – Keith Haring

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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman

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Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. – Thomas More

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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries…. – Umberto Eco

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[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and… every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967