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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being mor

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell

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If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? – Bertrand Russell

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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important. – Bertrand Russell

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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg

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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost. – Seamus Heaney

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Its always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. – Carol Ann Duffy

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