And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
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I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
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As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe.… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
My love poem what do you think? How do I start? What do I say? I love you and you take my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Then there is another I will in John, sixth chapter, verse forty; it occurs four times in the chapter: “I will raise… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
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I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
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![“For God would never have created any human beings, let alone any angels, whose future evil he foreknew, if he had not known equally well how he would put them to use for the good and so adorn the course of the ages, like the most beautiful poem, with antitheses of a sort.[39]” quote by Augustine of Hippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f87/augustine-of-hippo-2589_angels_for-god-would-never-have-created-any-hum_2503265.jpg)
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