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Quote by Paul Dirac
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be unders

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, its the exact opposite. – Paul Dirac

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It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in ones equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. – Paul Dirac

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Beauty
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I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. – Paul Dirac

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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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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. – Norman MacCaig

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Otherwise I dont read much adult poetry at all, because Im not smart enough and mostly I dont get it. – Jack Prelutsky

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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ. – Christopher Smart

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