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Quotes

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“ Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending;
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse ” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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2

“ A good poem is one in which the form of the verse and the joining of its two parts seem light as a shallow river flowing over its sandy bed. ” — Matsuo Bashō

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3

“ Art is a house that tries to be haunted. ” — Emily Dickinson

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4

“ The business of poetry is to harmonise the sadness of the universe ” — A. E. Housman

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5

“ I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language. ” — W. H. Auden

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6

“ A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ” — Robert Frost

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7

“ To have great poets, there must be great audiences. ” — Walt Whitman

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8

{{The women tell me, Anacreon, thou art grown old; Take thy mirror, and view How few of thy hairs remain.}}

Anacreon

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9

“O, Nature! Of thee are all things; In thee are all things; To thee are all things.” Emperor Marcus Antoninus

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10

"Beauty is aptness to purpose." -- Ezra Pound

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