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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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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – Walter Scott

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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. – Walter Scott

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott

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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say theyre saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. – Harry Mathews

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Ive always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I dont think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. – Justin Townes Earle

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I dont see how poetry can ever be easy… Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it. – Edward Abbey

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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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