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Quote by André Gide

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

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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself. РAndr̩ Gide

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Self-Discovery
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André Gide
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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. РAndr̩ Gide

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Adversity
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I dont think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you cant teach them is the very essence of poetry. – Robert Morgan

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. – Voltaire

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. – Mario Cuomo

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Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle. – Maria Mitchell

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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. – Karl Jaspers

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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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