Quote by André Gide

“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. – André Gide

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – André Gide

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Art
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. – André Gide

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Adversity
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life – when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. – Erica Jong

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Poetry

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. – Rita Dove

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Poetry

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry
[P]oetry shares our misery, it is agitated with all our uneasiness; like us, it goes, comes, flies, never rests. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

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Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. – Christina Rossetti

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Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death. – Blaise Pascal

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The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. Thats what critics cant put their finger on. – Billy Corgan

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

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