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Poetry Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a…
- Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a…
- Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
- Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
- You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally…
- Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
- The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
- To a poet nothing can be useless
- Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his…
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