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Quote by Walter Scott
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. – Walter Scott

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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. – Walter Scott

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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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What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. – Stephen Greenblatt

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Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. – Compay Segundo

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