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- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake
- I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such… — Socrates
- Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious… — Stephen Spender
- Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their… — Seth Godin
- Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and,… — Richard Dawkins
- Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't… — Billy Collins
- Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these,… — Clive Barker
- You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough… — Anne Rice
- When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit… — Thomas Moore
- Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their… — Nelson Mandela
- We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male… — Francesca Lia Block