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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is myste

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. – Edward Young

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The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. – Edward Young

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Future
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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. – Edward Young

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It is the hour to be drunken! Be drunken, if you would not be martyred slaves of Time; be drunken continually! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. – Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), “Be Drunken,” translated from French by Arthur

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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. – J. G. Stedman

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Its bad poetry executed by people that cant sing. Thats my definition of Rap. – Peter Steele

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In poetry and in eloquence the beautiful and grand must spring from the commonplace…. All that remains for us is to be new while repeating the old, and to be ourselves in becoming the echo of the whole world. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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