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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be…
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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there…
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Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose,…
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There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted…
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This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.
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And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.
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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic…
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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of…
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The written word is everything.
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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are…
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain…
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So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . .…
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It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so…
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I lisp. My eyes disappear when I smile. My voice is funny. I don't sing like Judy Garland. I don't dance like…
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
— Sallust
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Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit…
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If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
— Thomas Hobbes
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All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
— Thomas a Kempis
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If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to…
— Ayn Rand
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In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even…
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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
— Laozi
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